HC expunges offending remarks against actor in Rolls Royce case
The Hindu
Division Bench terms observations made by single judge as ‘wholly unwarranted’
The Madras High Court on Tuesday expunged “offending and objectionable” remarks made by a single judge on July 8, 2021, while disposing of a 2012 writ petition filed by actor C. Vijay Joseph seeking entry tax exemption for his Rolls Royce Ghost imported from England.
Allowing a writ appeal preferred by the actor last year only to get the remarks expunged, a Division Bench of Justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and Mohammed Shaffiq held that the “disparaging” remarks made by the single judge against the actor were “wholly unwarranted.”
The Bench concurred with senior counsel Vijay Narayan that there was great uncertainty over the legal position on collection of entry tax until the Supreme Court upheld such collection in 2017 and therefore, the actor could not be blamed for having filed a case in 2012.