Snr Constructions Private Limited & ANR v. Kolkata Municipal Corporation & ORS

12.01.2021 Ct. No. 24 Item No. 12 pk.

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION WPA No. 2543 of 2020 SNR Constructions Private Limited & Anr.

-vsThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation & Ors.

Mr. Aniruddha Chatterjee, Mr. Sarvapriya Mukherjee, Mr. Arnab Sardar for the petitioners Mr. Biswajit Mukherjee, Mrs. Piyali Sengupta for the KMC The petitioners are aggrieved by the enhancement of the annual valuation of the property in question. According to the petitioners no reason whatsoever as to why the annual valuation of the property has been enhanced from Rs. 3,01,000/- to Rs. 22,00,000/- approximately.

The petitioners have preferred three appeals before the Municipal Assessment Tribunal being MAA No. 640 of 2017, MAA No. 641 of 2017 and MAA No. 642 of 2017. The petitioners submit that in spite of the aforesaid appeals being pending before the Assessment Tribunal, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has issued the notice for immediate payment of outstanding dues.

The Municipal Assessment Tribunal is the appropriate authority to decide whether the annual

valuation of the property in question has been properly fixed or not.

As it appears that the appeals preferred by the petitioners are pending consideration before the Assessment Tribunal for a considerable period of time, the instant writ petition is disposed of by directing the Kolkata Municipal Assessment Tribunal to take appropriate steps for consideration of the aforesaid appeals, in accordance with law, at the earliest, but positively within a period of four months from the date of communication of a copy of this order.

WPA No. 2543 of 2020 is thus disposed of.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order be supplied to the parties, if applied for, as early as possible.

(Amrita Sinha, J.)