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High Court quashes green cess notices to SWPL, JSW
The Free Press Journal - Mumbai
|October 09, 2025
BENCH TERMS ACTION ARBITRARY; CITES SERVICE PROVIDERS NOT LIABLE FOR POLLUTION IN STATE
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In a major relief to South West Port Limited (SWPL) and JSW Infrastructure Limited, the High Court of Bombay at Goa has quashed the show-cause notices issued by the State Tax Officer of the Commercial Tax Department, holding that the notices suffer from the vice of arbitrariness.
The Division Bench of Justice Bharati Dangre and Justice Nivedita Mehta observed that the petitioners ‘service providers’, are not responsible for polluting substances brought into the State.
This story is from the October 09, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal - Mumbai.
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