1987 (7) TMI 281

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.... the Respondents. [Oral Judgment per : Bharucha, J.]. - The appeal is directed against the summary rejection of the writ petition filed by the appellants. 2. The appellants import goods into India and transport them out of the limits of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay to their mills at Thane without payment of octroi thereon. Sometimes, however, when they do not immediate....

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.... for the respondents, pointed out to us the judgment of a Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court in I.C.C. Texturing Industry and another v. Surat Municipal Corporation. 1984 (1) Gujarat Law Journal 197, which, in similar circumstances, has taken a view converse to that canvassed for by the appellants. It seems to us that, nonetheless, the point raised by the appellants requires the consideratio....

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....r 6.25% thereof which was the service charge of the Municipal Corporation. 8.Taking this into account, we pass the following order : 9.The appeal is allowed. The order of summary rejection is set aside and is substituted by the following : "Rule. Expedited." 10. The respondents waive service. 11. Mr. Parsurampuria, learned Counsel for the appellants, undertakes to court that, p....