Supreme Court of India

South Delhi Municipal Corporation & Anr. v. M/s. Today Homes and Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. Etc.

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Reported as [2019] 10 S.C.R. 707
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 19 August 2019

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the Civil Court’s jurisdiction is impliedly barred for the following reasons: (i) There is no pre-existing liability of tax under Common L aw.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957: Maintainabil ity of civil suits in disputes pertaining to payment of tax under the Act – Held: Wherever a right or liability, not pre-existing in common law is created by a statute and that statute itself provides a machinery for enforcement of such right or liability, both th e right/liability and the remedy having been created uno flatu and a finality is intended to the result of the statutory proceedings, then, e ven in the absence of an exclusionary provision the jurisdicti on of the civil court is impliedly barred – Delhi Municipal Corporation Act,

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