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Bombay Municipal Corporation vs Dhondu Narayan Chowdhary on 8 February, 1965

"Rule 18 confers power and it also imposes duty on the commissioner to investigate and decide complaints made by assessees against the initial entries in the assessment book. The exercise of the power results in an order being, made determining amongst other things the rateable value of the premises ......... This quasi-judicial Power involving exercise of a large measure of personal judgment and vitally affecting the property rights of citizens has been conferred by the Legislature upon the Commissioner who is the highest executive officer under the Act. The question is whether such a power is within the 'contemplation of Section 49: Can it be deputed to another under that Section We do not think so. No Judicial or quasi-judicial power can be deputed to another by an officer to whom it is en. trusted under the statute unless the law expressly or by necessary implication permits it." After referring the Judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Bombay Municipal Corporation v. Dhondu, AIR 1965 SC 1486 and other authorities, the Division Bench further held as follows:-
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