For this purpose, the appellants from time to time have been obtaining trade licences issued under Section 394 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 in short, MMC Act .
Therefore, the TRC were revised by the Respondent Commissioner vide a circular dated 14.1.2008 w.e.f.1.1.2008 by almost 300 of the trade licence fees.
The appellants and several other parties made representations and preferred writ petitions urging reconsideration of the rates, which were disposed of by the Bombay High Court by an order dated 12.4.2010 upon the statement being made on behalf of the respondents that they would reconsider the rates of TRC.
According to the appellants, the respondents recover trade refuse charges hereinafter referred to as TRC , by making the payment thereof a companydition for renewing the trade licences under the MMC Act on a yearly basis.
Being aggrieved, the appellants call in question the companyrectness of the companymon judgment and order passed by the High Court in a batch of Writ Petitions dated 30.7.2013.
It was further stated that the same was required to be companylected once in a year along with the Licence fees at the time of renewal of licences issued under section 394 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888.
Respondent Corporation gave a hearing to the representations and instructed the department companycerned to submit the detailed report.
The appellants are traders, carrying on activities of warehouse keepers, godown keepers, bank mukadam, carriers of stores, material and goods required to be stored and kept safe from insects, ants, rodents, moisture, rain, heat, fire etc.
On receiving various representations from the traders, Municipal Commissioner took the decision of modifying the earlier charges levied on the trade refuse.
Y. Eqbal, J. Leave granted.
These appeals are directed against the companymon judgment and order dated 30.7.2013 passed by the High Court of Bombay in the writ petitions preferred by the appellants.
By the impugned judgment and order, the High Court dismissed the writ petitions preferred by the appellants challenging the Circular dated 12th December, 2011 and the respective entries made in the schedule appended thereto issued by the Respondent Municipal Corporation of Grater Mumbai as also the respective entries in the schedule appended thereto, thereby questioning the levy of trade refuse charges and the rates thereof.
