(1.) The central question that arises in these writ petitions is whether the levy of infrastructure development charges by the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is bad in law on account of the absence of necessary co-relation between the fee collected and the service intended to be rendered or in other words "quid pro quo".
(2.) Since common questions of fact and law arises in these batch of writ petitions, the same are disposed of by this common order.
(3.) For the sake of convenience, we quote herein below the facts in W.P. No. 34702 of 2006 treating it as the lead case. The facts: