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(iii) The port will not be held responsible for the cargo stacked by the petitioner in the balance area under the covered shed.
(iv) The petitioner shall not claim any payment for the usage of the shed by the Port.

3. Soon thereafter, respondent No.1 allotted 7072 sq. mtrs. of the surrendered paved area in favour of M/s Aspin Wall Logistics on 26.12.2011 with effect from 26.12.2011 to 25.01.2012 against receipt of a licence fee of Rs.2,04,381/-. This area was again licenced to M/s Aspin Wall Logistics for a month from 26.01.2012 to 24.02.2012 against receipt of Rs.2,05,064/-. Again the allotment of the godown to M/s Aspin Wall Logistics was renewed from 26.05.2012 till 24.06.2012 and licence fee of Rs.2,08,483/- was collected. Later on 05.11.2013, respondent No.2 allotted 1241 sq. mtrs. to M/s. Falcon Impex Corporation for two months commencing from 03.11.2013 to 01.01.2014 and collected a sum of Rs.1,71,456.92. In the meanwhile, the Board of trustees of respondent No.1 at a meeting held on 27.08.2013 decided to purchase the shed constructed by the petitioner in 7072 sq. mtrs. at a cost of Rs.2,00,00,000/-. At the said meeting, it was decided to collect penal charges upto 4 times until the balance iron ore fines was shifted to the common plot and to obtain an indemnity bond for the differential amount before shifting the cargo to the common plot, till the proposal was approved by the Ministry. Consequently, the Board resolved that the petitioner was liable to pay Rs.4,97,04,498/- as the penal licence fee as on 31.10.2013 and after deducting the value of the shed, required the petitioner to pay a sum of Rs.2,97,04,498/-. Following this, the respondent No.1 addressed a letter dated 31.03.2015 stating that the Tariff Authority for Major Port (for short 'TAMP') had issued a notification dated 03.07.2014 revising the lease rent from 20.02.2012 and therefore, called upon the petitioner to remit the differential licence fee and service tax amounting to Rs.3,32,27,506/-. The petitioner replied to this letter and claimed that an extent of 7072 sq. mtrs. was surrendered on 19.09.2011 and that the renewal of the licence in respect of surrendered area was not sought for. It also contended that subsequent to the surrender, the surrendered area of 7072 sq. mtrs. was allotted to M/s. Aspin Wall Logistics and M/s. Falcon Impex Corporation. The respondent No.2 however, overruled the objections of the petitioner and called upon the petitioner to pay the applicable differential licence fee for the entire extent of 8988 sq. mtrs. as demanded. This was followed by another communication dated 13.11.2015 provisionally demanding a sum of Rs.3,30,54,353/- being the differential licence fee.