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2019 Supreme(Bom) 680

A.S.OKA, RIYAZ I.CHAGLA
Property Owners Association – Appellant
Versus
State of Maharashtra – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
Rafiq Dada, Adv., H. Daruwalla, Adv., H.N. Vakil, Adv., Mulla & Mulla, Adv., Jehangir Jeejeebhoy, Adv., Bharucha & Partners, Adv., Sandeep Jalan, Adv., Akshay Patil, Adv., Mandar Soman, Adv., A.R. Vaidya & Co, Adv., Zaid S Ansari, Adv., Mangesh Kokare, Adv., Deep Morabia, Adv., Karl Tamboly, Adv., Vaibhav Sugdare, Adv., Samsher Gharud, Adv., Radhika Nair, Adv., Jaykar & Partners, Adv., S.K. Kapoor, Adv., Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe, Adv., Rajesh Satpalkar, Adv., Shaheen Moghul, Adv., Kirtida Chandarana, Adv., Manasi Kalvit, Adv., Mahernosh Humranwala, Adv., Prateeti Thakar, Adv., Shubham Mittal, Adv., Ff & Associates, Adv., Milind Sathe, Adv., H. Devrajan, Adv., T.C. Deshpande, Adv., V.B. Dhawan, Adv., Vishal Kanade, Adv., Yasmin Bhansali, Adv., Kahmish Khan, Adv., Yasmin Bhansali & Co, Adv., Swapnil Gupte, Adv., Argus Partners, Adv., R.A. Dada, Adv., Rashmin Khandekar Shailesh Mendon, Adv., Smruti Kanade, Adv., Negandhi Shah & Himayatullah, Adv., Balakrishna Adyanthaya, Adv., N.A. Pathan, Adv., Sanjiv Sawant, Adv., S.U. Kamdar, Adv., Yashesh Kamdar, Adv., Niyathi Kalra, Adv., Rujuta Patil, Adv., Negandhi Shah & Himayatulla, Adv., R.M. Nakhwa, Adv., Vasant Dhavan, Adv., Aniketh Nair, Adv., Mustafa Motiwala, Adv., B.H. Antia, Adv., J. Shah, Adv., Saket Mone, Adv., Neha Joshi, Adv., Subit Chakraborti, Adv., Vidhii Partners, Adv., Zubair Dada, Adv., Kathleen Lobo, Adv., Aastha Arora, Adv., Khaitan & Co, Adv., Jagdish Reddy, Adv., Arvind D Aswani, Adv., Nilima V Sangvikar, Adv., Samshed Garud, Adv., Bijal Gandhi, Adv., Hormaz Daruwala, Adv., Amruta A Sawant, Adv., Sonal Doshi & Co, Adv., Amit Khairnar, Adv., Toufiq Kapadia, Adv., Prasad Dhande, Adv., T. Kapadia, Adv., Shahazad Irani, Adv., D.H. Law Associates, Adv., Smisha Patel, Adv., Wadia Ghandy & Co, Adv., Virag Tulzapurkar, Adv., Nikhil Apte, Adv., Akshit Dedhia, Adv., Sowmya Srikrishna, Adv., Jasmine Kachalia, Adv., Abinash Pradhan, Adv., A.G. Damle, Adv., Ranjieev Carvalho, Adv., Akanksha Patil, Adv., Shah Legal, Adv., Zainul Badami, Adv., Huda Diamondwala, Adv., Diamondwala & Co, Adv., Bhushan Deshmukh, Adv., R.K. Satpalkar, Adv., Sanjay Kadam, Adv., Apeksha Sharma, Adv., Sanjeel Kadam, Adv., Sayli Rajpurkar, Adv., Kadam & Co, Adv., Jayom M Shah, Adv., Pooja Shroff Dhandhukia, Adv., Shweta Rankhambe, Adv., Aagam Doshi & Co, Adv., Chintan Thakker, Adv., Anilkumar Joshi, Adv., B.N. Shukla, Adv., D.J. Kamdin & Co, Adv., Pushpa Thapa, Adv., Kavita Shah, Adv., Prachi Khandge, Adv., M.P. Vashi & Associates, Adv., Makarand Raut, Adv., Hima Khuman, Adv., G.B. Walawalkar, Adv., S.P. Thorat, Adv., Nikhil Patil, Adv., V.P. Sawant, Adv., Jimmy Pochkhanawalla, Adv., V. Sridharan, Adv., S.S. Pakle, Adv., J.J. Xavier, Adv., S.M. Modle, Adv., Pallavi Thakar, Adv., Rupali Adhate, Adv., A.A. Kumbhakoni, Adv., G.W. Mattos, Adv., Ashutosh Kulkarni, Adv., Gaurav Sharma, Adv., G.R. Shastri, Adv., A.L. Patki, Adv., Milind More, Adv., H.S. Venegaonkar, Adv., Uma Palsule-Desai, Adv., M.A. Sayed, Adv., L.T. Satelkar, Adv., Kedar Dighe, Adv., Dushyant Kumar, Adv., R.J. Mane, Adv., Jyoti Chavan, Adv., U.S. Upadhyay, Adv., Amar Mishra, Adv., S.B. Gore, Adv., Manish Upadhyay, Adv., Amit Shastri, Adv., V.P. Kakade, Adv., Akanksha Kalyanpur, Adv., Samarth Patel, Adv., Sahil Gandhi, Adv., Rishi Jha, Adv., Markand Gandhi & Co, Adv., Rajiv Chavan, Adv., D.P. Singh, Adv., Yashodee Deshmukh, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

A.S. OKA, J.

1. By an administrative order dated 31st May 2018 passed by the Hon'ble the Acting Chief Justice, this group of writ petitions has been assigned to this Bench.

OVERVIEW

2. In the State of Maharashtra, there are three main legislations concerning municipalities. The first is the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 (for short "the BMC Act"), the second is the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 and third is the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965. These laws governing the municipalities provide for imposition of various taxes including the property tax on buildings and lands which include general tax, water tax, water benefit tax, sewerage tax, sewerage benefit tax, street tax etc. These enactments earlier provided for levy of property tax on the basis of certain percentage of rateable value of the buildings or lands. The basis for determination of rateable value as provided in the aforesaid enactments was the annual rent for which such buildings or lands might reasonably be expected to let from yea























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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