: 1 : IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CONTEMPT PETITION NO.312 OF 2007 Sou.Shakuntala C. Katakkar ....Petitioner V/s. Talegaon Dabhade Municipal Council ....Respondent Mr.A.B. Avhad for the Petitioner. Mr.Prathamesh Bhargude i/b Mr.S.B. Deshmukh for the Respondent. CORAM : S.J. VAZIFDAR, J. DATED : 10TH APRIL, 2008. P.C. : 1. This Contempt Petition is without any merit. It is contended that the annual letting value (ALV) was fixed at Rs.0.84 paise per sq.mtr. This contention is based on an order dated 6.12.2003 passed by 4th Additional District Judge, Pune by which the Respondent is directed to "fix A.L.V." of the property belonging to the Appellant/Petitioner at the rate of Rs.0.84 paise per sq.ft. 2. At least for the purpose of this Contempt Petition, to say the least, the Respondent justifiably believed that this was a typographic error or in any : 2 : event an error apparent on the face of the record. The order was passed in the Revision under Section 171 of the Maharashtra Municipal Councils Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Township Act, 1965. The Revision was against an order passed by the J.M.F.C., Vadgaon-Maval. The J.M.F.C. had fixed the rate at "Rs.84 paise per sq.ft." 3. The order in revision proceeds on the erroneous basis that the order passed by the J.M.F.C. fixed that the rate is Rs.0.84 paise per sq.ft. This could never have been the case. The order of the J.M.F.C. clearly fixed the rate of Rs.84/- per sq.ft. This is clear also from the fact that in the revision application, the grievance was that the rate fixed by the J.M.F.C. was at the rate to Rs.84/- per sq.ft. The only grievance therefore in the revision application is that instead of fixing the rate per sq.mtr., the J.M.F.C. fixed the rate per sq.ft. Thus it was not the Petitioner’s case that the rates are fixed at Rs.0.84 paise. It in inconceivable therefore that the A.L.V. should be fixed at Rs.0.84 paise per sq.mtr. 4. The application for rectification was dismissed by the learned 4th Additional District : 3 : Judge. The order does not disclose any reasonings for not carrying out this correction. 5. It was seriously contended that because of the full stop "." after "Rs." the figure that follows viz. 84 is the paise equivalent and not the rupee equivalent. The contention with the Court does not even require consideration. 6. The Contempt Petition is dismissed. The Petitioner shall pay the costs fixed at Rs.5000/- to the Respondent within eight weeks from today.