The Jharkhand High Court has struck down key amendments to the Jharkhand Electricity Duty law that had radically altered the basis of levy of electricity duty. The Bench of Chief Justice and Justice Rajesh Shankar held that electricity duty cannot be imposed on the basis of “net energy charges” when the parent statute authorises levy…
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