IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN TUESDAY, THE 27TH OCTOBER 2009 / 5TH KARTHIKA 1931 WP(C).No. 27919 of 2009(H) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- V.RAJNEEV, PROPRIETOR, SOUTH INDIAN REFRACTORIES, FUNCTIONAL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE FOR CERAMICS, KOLLAM-1. BY ADV. SRI.B.KRISHNA MANI RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. THE SECRETARY, KOLLAM CORPORATION, KOLLAM. 2. THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, THE KERALA STATE SMALL INDUSTRIES, DEPARTMENT AND EMPLOYMENT CORPORATION LTD., (SIDCO), THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. R1 BY SRI.M.K.CHANDRAMOHAN DAS, S.C. R2 BY ADV. SRI.R.T.PRADEEP THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 27/10/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN, J. ------------------------------------------- W.P(C).No.27919 OF 2009 ------------------------------------------- Dated this the 27th day of October, 2009 JUDGMENT The petitioner is the lessee of a shed of SIDCO. Clause 6 of Ext.P3 arrangement between SIDCO and the petitioner provides that SIDCO, the lessor shall pay the land tax, municipal/ panchayat tax and such other taxes which lessor is liable to pay as the owner of the shed. This writ petition is filed on the ground that the municipal authority is insisting on payment of land tax, property tax etc. This is apparently on the basis of an unauthorised writing found at the foot of the first page of Ext.P6. Though the learned counsel for the first respondent corporation states that his client has filed a statement, that is yet to reach the Bench. However, the learned counsel states that the corporation does not own up the aforesaid writing at the foot of the first page of Ext.P6 but stands to insist only on payment of licence fee in terms of the endorsement at the top of the first page of Ext.P6. The petitioner, through his learned counsel, WPC.27919/09 Page numbers states that he has no grievance if the payment required is only of licence fee, late fee etc and not property tax. He has to necessarily pay the profession tax because that is not attendant to the building or the site. With the aforesaid clarification, this writ petition is ordered, directing that if the petitioner makes payments in terms of what is afore recorded, the corporation will consider renewal of licence in terms of law without delay. Sd/- THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN, Judge. kkb.28/10.