SAHAKAR GLOBAL LIMITED JV AND ANR. vs MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Judgment reserved on: 27.02.2025 % Judgment delivered on:08.04.2025 + W.P.(C) 2492/2025& CM APPL. 11777/2025 SAHAKAR GLOBAL LIMITED JV AND ANR. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv and Mr. Percival Billimoria, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Mukesh Butani, Mr. Rakesh Sinha, Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr. Anand Srivastava, Mr. Harsh Shukla, Mr. Siddharth Agrawal, Mr. Ahsan UlHaq, Ms. Rachita Sood, Mr. Tushar Bhathija, Mr. Ritwik Mahapatra, Mr. Varun Tyagi, Mr. Varad Kohle and Mr. Asheesh Bhandari, Mr. Anand Srivastava, Mr. Ajay Chawla, Advs. versus MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjiv Sen, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Sanjay Vashishtha, SC, MCD, Ms. Gunjan Rathore, Mr. Prahalad Balaji, Ms. Harshita Rai and Mr. Siddhartha Goswami, Mr. Sumit, Advs. Mr. Sumit Kumar, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Toll Tax, MCD. CORAM: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TUSHAR RAO GEDELA W.P.(C) 2492/2025 Page 1 of 63 Signature Not Verified Digiltally Signed By:SREERAM L Signing Date:08.04.2025 14:32:09 JUDGMENT DEVENDRA KUMAR UPADHYAYA, C.J. -: CHALLENGE :- 1. By instituting this Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the Petitioners seek to challenge the decision of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi [„MCD‟]/sole respondent, as embodied in the letter dated 05.11.2024 issued by the Additional Deputy Commissioner (Toll Tax), MCD and addressed to the Petitioner no.1 whereby, the respondent/Corporation in its meeting held on 05.10.2024 decided – “to explore the possibility of time gap arrangement by engaging the existing contractor on same terms and conditions of existing contract at new „H-1‟ rate so that there is no revenue loss to MCD or any other time gap arrangement and parallelly explore how