Orissa Municipal Act, 1950

The State of Orissa issued a proclamation in English, both in the Official Gazette and a local newspaper, announcing its intention to declare two villages as a notified area under Section 417-A of the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950, and invited objections. The residents challenged the proclamation on two grounds: (1) it fa…

Talcher Municipality constructed a market under the Orissa Municipal Act. The Talcher Regulated Market Committee, invoking Section 4(4) of the Orissa Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1956, requisitioned the transfer of the market to itself. The municipality failed to comply, leading to a writ petition in the Orissa Hi…

The State of Orissa issued a notification on 31 August 1976 grouping various municipal posts into a single cadre under Section 81 of the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950 and Rule 3(2) of the Service Rules, resulting in transfers of the respondents between octroi and general sections. The respondents challenged the notificati…

Bhaskar Textile Mills Ltd., a company situated in the village of Ektali, challenged the Jharsuguda Municipality’s inclusion of the village within its limits and the subsequent levy of octroi duty on cotton. The municipality had extended its jurisdiction through notifications dated 31 July 1973 and 12 August 1975 under …

The Puri Municipal Council imposed octroi tax on marine fish and prawns found in the possession of non‑fishermen within the municipal limits without payment of the entry tax. Indian Tobacco Co. Ltd. challenged the levy, and the Orissa High Court dismissed the municipality's claim. On appeal, the Supreme Court examined …

The petitioners challenged the applicability of the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950 to Sundargarh district, a Scheduled Area, after the commencement of Part IX‑A of the Constitution. The Court held that Part IX‑A does not apply to Scheduled Areas unless extended by Parliament, which it has not been, and therefore the Act re…

The petitioners OCL India Ltd., SAIL and Hindalco challenged the levy of entry tax under the Orissa Entry Tax Act, 1999 (and similar statutes in Uttar Pradesh) on the ground that industrial townships, which had been excluded from municipal limits by notifications under the proviso to Article 243Q, were not "local areas…