{"id":131809,"date":"2009-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mallikarjun-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-22-july-2009"},"modified":"2015-05-24T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T16:10:07","slug":"mallikarjun-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-22-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mallikarjun-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-22-july-2009","title":{"rendered":"Mallikarjun vs The State Of Karnataka on 22 July, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mallikarjun vs The State Of Karnataka on 22 July, 2009<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: P.D.Dinakaran(Cj) &amp; A.S.Bopanna<\/div>\n<pre>IN THE HIGH COURT or KARNATAKA AT BANGALORE\nDATED THIS THE 22\"\" DAY OF JULY, 2009\nPRESENT\nTHE I-lON'BLE MR. P.D. DINAKARAN, CHIEF JusTIcE \nAND ..  .,\n\nTHE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE A.S. BOPANNAK:  it\n\n \n\nWRIT PETITION Nos.21042--43 of-2'o'o9 rgsivi,    \nBetween: It i  A it  A. L'\n\nMallikarjun,\n\nS\/o Guranna Kollur,\n\nAged about 40 years,\n\nOcc: Class~1 Contractor,\n\nResiding at Plot No.128,\n\nMahaveernagar,   \u00ab\nGulbarga.    _  '\n\n...Petitioner\n\nmy Sri xG.._C4-i;Cha.g'Eishetti,\u00a7 Advocate]\n\nAnd:  ,  I\n1.f.\"V The  o,.i*.t,i&lt;arnataIieCi1tive Enginner,\n\n  Pancizayath Raj Engineering Division,\n,_4Bidar.\n ...Respondents<\/pre>\n<p>(By Sri Basavaraj Kareddy, GA)<\/p>\n<p>These writ petitions are filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the<br \/>\nConstitution of India praying to direct the respondents not to dteduct<\/p>\n<p>royalty from the bills of the petitioner &amp; not to insist the petition:e\u00abr_t=o_<\/p>\n<p>produce the royalty paid receipts by their vendors; and etc.  4&#8242; \u00bb _ i-<\/p>\n<p>These writ petitions coming up for preliminary hearing <\/p>\n<p>the Court delivered the following:-_ _-\n<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner in these petitions.is,the registered civ&#8217;i!&#8217;Vc.ontra_t;torl<\/p>\n<p>carrying on civil works of the Governument _Depa*rtrn&#8217;en&#8217;t and Local<br \/>\nBodies. It is contended that ffort the&#8217;V&#8217;p&#8217;u&#8217;rposep&#8217;Vi&#8217;o.f. execution of civil<br \/>\nworks, the petitioner is required tollpuirchase_.bu&#8217;il.\ufb01:in&#8217;g;materials from<\/p>\n<p>the private sources. _.,Itti:S&#8217;f.urtliI;er co:n;tended_jithatthe petitioner does<\/p>\n<p>not own any :q_uarr&#8217;yAaVnd.Vthat&#8217;he~is&#8221;n&#8211;ot* liable to pay any royalty to the<br \/>\nrespondents. l-iowlever,&#8217;ithesrespolndents are deducting royalty from<br \/>\nthe bills of the petition-erplwithout authority of law. Hence, the petitions<br \/>\nVno-t&amp;:.to.&#8221;&#8216;deduct thevroyalty from the bills of the petitioner in<\/p>\n<p>respei_:.t&#8217;V&#8217;of&#8221;the:&#8217;*rnatVeria&#8217;l_s procured by him from private sources for<\/p>\n<p>&#8216; &#8216;i&#8221;ii&#8230;e.xecution,_oi&#8217; the ciVi1i_contract works.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;.   In sirriil_a_r1~matters, this Court in G.V. KUMAR AND OTHERS v.<\/p>\n<p>*._&#8217;_&#8217;vs1*_Ai.*ig .oii&#8221;~:&lt;ARNATAKA AND omens in Writ Petitions No. 31264~<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &quot;fj;3_1_&#039;2566 or 1994 disposed of on 31&quot; October, 1994 has laid down the<\/p>\n<p>;?k?\\<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">4<\/span><\/p>\n<p>iike quarry iease holders or private quarry owners, t.&#8217;2&#8217;ere-  <\/p>\n<p>is no iiabiiity on the contractor to pay any  -1&#8242; V<\/p>\n<p>charges.\n<\/p>\n<p>(0&#8242;) In cases covered by paras (b) a,n&#8217;J(\u00a2)&#8217; the&#8217;~Departn1ent_i&#8221;&#8216;VV<br \/>\ncannot recover or deduct any royaity&#8217;_&#8217;Afro}n the &#8216;Abiiis  it<br \/>\nthe contractor and if so deducted,&amp;&#8217;th_e&#8221;bepartrnventiiwiii &#8216;<br \/>\nbe bound to refund any aniou_ntvso deducted or &#8216;c_oii\u00e9cted&#8221; &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>to the contractor.\n<\/p>\n<p>(6) Subject to the abaye, _ co_\/iect:&#8217;on&#8221;&#8221;orv.. ,rp;raity by the<br \/>\nDepartment or refund thereoffby1the~\u00abi)ep.\u00a7n&#8217;n?ient will be<\/p>\n<p>governed by the terms of contract; . _<\/p>\n<p>(1&#8242;) Nothing&#8217; stat\u00e9dLa&#8217;boy&#8217;e&#8217; shall be&#8221; construed as a direction<br \/>\nfor re.&#8217;und&#8217;iin re\u00a7&#8217;a.rdany&#8221;particuiar contract. The<br \/>\nQepartrnenit Cautho-.rity._concemea&#8221;:shaii decided in each<br \/>\ncase, whAether.,royaity.,is&#8221;-to be deducted or if any royaity<br \/>\nis&#8221;-_aire.ady _deducted,A.._&#8217;Whetiier it should be refunded,<br \/>\nkeeping in viewthe =ab&#8217;o\u00a7\/e principles and terms of the<\/p>\n<p>_c_ontrac&#8217;t:&#8221; .\n<\/p>\n<p>  v-iF&#8221;The, said decisionbas been upheid by the Division Bench<\/p>\n<p>of this &#8216;zjase of OFFICE or THE DIRECTOR or<\/p>\n<p>7&#8243;&#8216;vt,_AoEpAR&#8217;mENT&#8221;cs\u00e9;Mines AND eeoaoev v. M. MOHAMMED<\/p>\n<p>\/&lt; .\n<\/p>\n<p>Vb}-IAJEE in Wm: Appeai No. 830 of 2006 disposed of on 25&#8243;&#8216; September,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">5<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3. Foilowing the judgment of this Court rendered<\/p>\n<p>No.830 of 2006 disposed of on 25&#8243;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>are also disposed of, No order as to costs,-J  &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Index: Y-ES~\/ Ho F; &#8212; V<br \/>\n23,2&#8243; r<br \/>\nWeb host: YES \/ NQ &#8211;\n<\/p>\n<p>Inn<\/p>\n<p>ir;~\u00ab~~&#8217;.nJ:je};. A<br \/>\nSeptember, 2006 &#8216;fh_:esefpent&#8217;it\u00a7dne _A<br \/>\nWfcede %<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka High Court Mallikarjun vs The State Of Karnataka on 22 July, 2009 Author: P.D.Dinakaran(Cj) &amp; A.S.Bopanna IN THE HIGH COURT or KARNATAKA AT BANGALORE DATED THIS THE 22&#8243;&#8221; DAY OF JULY, 2009 PRESENT THE I-lON&#8217;BLE MR. P.D. DINAKARAN, CHIEF JusTIcE AND .. ., THE HON&#8217;BLE MR.JUSTICE A.S. BOPANNAK: it WRIT PETITION Nos.21042&#8211;43 of-2&#8217;o&#8217;o9 rgsivi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mallikarjun vs The State Of Karnataka on 22 July, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mallikarjun-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-22-july-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mallikarjun vs The State Of Karnataka on 22 July, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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