THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.SARATH WRIT PETITION No.25467 of 2011

ORDER:

This writ petition is filed questioning the action of the respondents in requiring the petitioner to pay life tax along with applicable penalty and compounding fee for the 27 forklifts operated by the petitioner as illegal and arbitrary and to set aside the Demand Notice dated 16.08.2011 and consequently direct the respondents not to insist the petitioner to register the forklifts operated by it under the said legislations or to remit any amounts towards life tax and/or penalties and compounding fee under the Telangana Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1963.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Assistant Government Pleader for Transport for the respondents and perused the entire material on record.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the issue involved in this writ petition is squarely covered by the Judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Tarachand Logistic Solutions Limited vs State of Andhra Pradesh, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 1851 and requested to set aside the impugned Demand Notice dated 16.08.2011.

4. On the other hand, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Transport has not disputed