The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : HC dismisses plea by photocopying vendor

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HC dismisses plea by photocopying vendor

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the owner of a photocopying machine shop, who was conducting business from the High Court premises.

The appellant, Mangala, said she was allotted a place on the High Court premises in 1992, and she had put up a photocopying unit there in 1993.

She said she had been operating the unit all these years. Now the High Court had asked her to pay rent for the space she was utilising.

She said she had been asked by the Registrar, High Court, to pay arrears of rent for the past several years.

She described this decision as arbitrary and against the principles of natural justice.

Principal Government Advocate Srinivasa Gowda submitted that there are 10 persons operating photocopying units on the Court premises.

All of them were paying ground rent, apart from electricity charges, except the petitioner. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph and Justice Ashok B. Hinchigeri dismissed the appeal and said the appellant was obliged, as per the agreement, to pay the rent.

The Bench noted that she had not paid the arrears of rent though she had agreed to do so.

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