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PETITIONER:

JIT RAM SHIV KUMAR AND ORS. ETC.

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

STATE OF HARYANA AND ANR. ETC.

DATE OF JUDGMENT16/04/1980

BENCH:

KAILASAM, P.S.

BENCH:

KAILASAM, P.S.

FAZALALI, SYED MURTAZA

CITATION:

1980 AIR 1285 1980 SCR (3) 689

1981 SCC (1) 11

CITATOR INFO :

R 1983 SC 848 (10)

O 1986 SC 806 (12,13)

RF 1986 SC 872 (181)

E 1991 SC 14 (11)

ACT:

Punjab Municipal Act, 1911 as amended by Punjab Act 48

of 1953, Section 62A-Power of State Government to direct the

Municipality to impose any tax under section 61-Exemption

from payment of octroi duty not within the competence of the

Municipality and ultra vires of its powers-Whether any such

act which is void ab initio, enforceable-Principle of

Promissory Estoppel, ingredients of-Applicability to the

instant case.

HEADNOTE:

The Municipal Committee of Bahadurgarh, respondent No.

2 established Mandi Fateh in Bahadurgarh Town with a view to

improve trade in the area. The Municipal Committee decided

that the purchasers of the plots for sale in the Mandi would

not be required to pay octroi dut