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1981 (11) TMI 192 - HC - VAT and Sales TaxConstitutional validity of new Section 6-11 of the Karnataka Sales Tax Act, 1957, substituted by the Karnataka Sales Tax (Amendment) Act, 1981 - court-fee payable by each petitioner - petition in which thirteen petitioners had joined - Held that: - each of the petitioners in the present writ petition, has his own distinct and separate cause of action arising out of his liability to pay the tax individually under the impugned taxing provision. Since the present writ petition embraces more than one of such causes of action and separate relief's sought therein, namely, to restrain the respondents from enforcing the impugned taxing provision against each of the petitioners, are based on them (such causes of action), it (the present writ petition) is chargeable with the aggregate amount of the court-fees with which the petitions would be chargeable under the Act ' if separate writ petitions had been presented in respect of several causes of action, a required by sub-section (3) read with substitution (4) of Section 6 of the Act. Under Clause (S) of Article I of Sch. II of the Karnataka Court-fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1958 read with sub-sees. (3) and (4) of Section 6 of that Act, each of the petitioners, in the present writ petition, is liable to pay thereon a separate court-fee of ₹ 100, as if he had presented a separate writ petition. Appeal dismissed.
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