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Issues: (i) Whether the levy/demand of house tax and water/sewerage tax in respect of the premises can be challenged in a civil suit despite the statutory remedies provided under the U.P. Municipal Corporation Adhiniyam, 1959 and the U.P. Water Supply and Sewerage Act, 1975; (ii) Whether an interim injunction should be granted restraining recovery of the said taxes during the pendency of the suit.
Issue (i): Whether the levy/demand of house tax and water/sewerage tax can be challenged in a civil suit.
Analysis: The Adhiniyam provides a statutory scheme for assessment, appeals and challenges to valuation and assessment; Section 226 bars jurisdiction of civil and criminal courts in taxation matters. The W.S.S. Act empowers Jal Sansthan to assess annual value and provides that until such assessment is made the annual value as assessed by the local body for house tax shall be deemed to apply. Where a revenue statute creates a specific remedy and finality for statutory proceedings, challenges to assessments are to be pursued under that scheme; correctness of assessment is ordinarily for the statutory authorities and civil suit is barred except where statutory procedures have not been complied with or fundamental procedural principles are violated.
Conclusion: The levy/demand of house tax and water/sewerage tax cannot be challenged in a civil suit; the Jal Sansthan is entitled to proceed on the basis of the Nagar Nigam's assessment and the claim is barred by the statutory scheme.
Issue (ii): Whether an interim injunction should be granted restraining recovery of the taxes during pendency of the suit.
Analysis: Interim injunction requires irreparable injury that cannot be compensated by money; the demand is a quantified sum of money recoverable as taxes. Even if a prima facie case or balance of convenience were present, refusal of an injunction in respect of a monetary demand does not cause irreparable injury not compensable by damages.
Conclusion: No interim injunction should be granted; the application for injunction is rightly rejected.
Final Conclusion: The appeal is dismissed and the plaintiff's challenge to the tax demands is not maintainable in a civil suit; no interim relief is warranted.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a revenue statute furnishes a specific statutory remedy and scheme for assessment and appeals and declares or implies finality, challenges to assessment or levy of tax are barred in a civil suit and a municipal or Jal Sansthan assessment (or its deemed assessment) must be contested under the statutory procedure; interim injunctions are not appropriate to restrain recovery of quantified tax demands absent irreparable injury.
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