LAWS(HPH)-2014-10-102

JITENDER SINGH Vs. STATE OF H.P.

Decided On October 29, 2014
JITENDER SINGH Appellant
V/S
STATE OF H.P. Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN all these writ petitions, the petitioners have called in question the orders made by the competent authority, in terms of the Himachal Pradesh Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1972 read with the Revenue Recovery Act, 1980, whereby the District Collector -cum -Deputy Commissioner, Sirmour at Nahan, Himachal Pradesh, was asked to effect the recovery as land revenue.

(2.) WE deem it proper to dispose of all these writ petitions by this common judgment for the reason that similar questions are involved.

(3.) WE had an occasion to hear and decide a batch of writ petitions, the lead case of which was CWP No. 4779/2014, titled as M/s. Indian Technomac Company Ltd. versus State of Himachal Pradesh and others, decided on 4th August, 2014, whereby it was held that the writ petitions were not maintainable and came to be dismissed by providing that the writ petitioners are at liberty to seek appropriate remedy for the reason that the writ petitioners had an alternative remedy available, i.e. the remedy of appeal.