B. SUBHASHAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THESE four writ petitions raise a common point with regard to right of collection of 9% towards stamp duty and registration charges by the respondents from the respective petitioners for the grant of right to collect the toll fee on the bridges viz. , Kanakadurgamma Varadhi, Keesara bridge on National High-way No. 9 and Vadapally bridge in Nalgonda District.

( 2 ) IN the counter filed by the respondents, the right to collect the said amount has been asserted. The said assertion is not traced to any of the provisions of the Stamp Act or the Registration Act. I have scanned through all the provisions of the Stamp Act as also the Registration Act, but nowhere I could find any provision authorising the respondents to collect stamp duty and registration charges at 9%.

( 3 ) MR. Ghulam Dastagir, the learned Government Pleader also could not point out to me the legal provisions empowering the respondents to collect the said amount either in the shape of cash or bank guarantee, but he says that the respondents have imposed that condition not in one case , but in several cases and the tenderers had been paying the same either in cash or in the shape of bank guara

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