Supreme Court of India

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

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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 is no merit in the challenge raised in the writ proceedings before 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 – Challenge 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 and not a fee – Nomenclature of the tax does not indicate its true character and substance – Nor does the fact that the law enables the Jal Sansthan to levy the tax render it a tax on water – Tax has been labelled as the water tax or a sewerage tax because it is imposed by the Jal Sansthan constituted under the UP Water Supply and Sewerage Act – That does not…

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