Property tax dispute: HC seeks state and BMC’s response on MMOPL’s plea

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim relief to the Mumbai Metro One Private Limited (MMOPL) and asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) not to take any coercive action of cutting water supply and sewerage lines of Metro-1 (Versova-Ghatkopar) route.

The court was hearing MMOPL’s plea against BMC’s action of demanding nearly Rs 2,500 crore tax, failing which the supplies will be cut. The court directed the state and BMC to file an affidavit in reply to the plea within two weeks.

A division bench led by Justice A A Sayed was told by senior advocate Venkatesh R Dhond for MMOPL that while the government had granted exemption for payment of property tax as stipulated under the Central Metro Act and the Railway Act,