Supreme Court of India

Jalkal Vibhag Nagar Nigam & Ors. v. Pradeshiya Industrial and Investment Corporation & Anr.

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Reported as [2021] 12 S.C.R. 210
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Vikram Nath and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 22 October 2021

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we are of the view that there i s no merit in the challenge raised in the writ proceedings befor e the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.

Judgment, page 48

From the headnote

Uttar Pradesh Water Supply and Sewerage Act 1975 – ss.52(1)(a), 55(b)(1), 56 – Constitutional validity of – hallenge to – Held: Rejected – Levy u/s.52 falls squarely under the ambit of Entry 49, List II as it is in the nature of a tax a nd not a fee – Nomenclature of the tax does not indicate its true c haracter and substance – Nor does the fact that the law enables the Jal Sans than to levy the tax render it a tax on water – Tax has been l abelled as the water tax or a sewerage tax because it is impos ed by the Jal Sansthan constituted under the UP Water Supply and Sewerage Act – That does

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