CWP No. 16783 of 1990 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 16783 of 1990 Date of decision May 30, 2011 Satnam Singh ....Petitioner Versus The Municipal Committee, Jagraon, District Ludhiana and another .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present: Mr. Gurcharan Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. None for respondent No.1. Mr. S. S. Sivia, DAG., Punjab. K. Kannan, J (oral) 1. The petition is a challenge to the assessment of property tax for the house owner in Unit 810-A of Lajpat Rai Road, Jagraon. The grievance expressed by the petitioner is that the tax must be assessed only on the basis of fair rent payable under the East Punjab Urban Rent Restrictions Act, 1949 and it cannot be assessed arbitrarily I uphold the contention, quash the action of assessing tax and direct the respondent to assess the fair rent payable for the property at the relevant time and impose the tax recoverable in accordance with law. If the property tax has been assessed for the subsequent years independently of the period for which the writ petition was filed, the same will not be in any way affected by the directions given above for determination of fair rent for the purpose of fixation of CWP No. 16783 of 1990 2 the property tax. 2. Annexures P-3 and P-4 are quashed. The writ petition is accordingly allowed. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE May 30,2011 archana -