Vishnu Kumar Yadav v. State of U.P.and 2 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
WRIT TAX 827/2025, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, neutral citation 2025:AHC:34374-DB, order date 10.3.2025; bench: Arun Bhansali (CJ) and Kshitij Shailendra (J); petitioner Vishnu Kumar Yadav (counsel Vedant Agarwal); respondents State of U.P. and 2 others (counsel Manoj Kumar Kushwaha, S.C.). Issue: exemption/refund of road tax for hybrid electric vehicles, submitted as squarely covered by Parth Agarwal v. State of U.P. & 3 others, Writ Tax No. 1264 of 2024 (decided 13.8.2024), which recorded the Government's 28.06.2024 exemption decision for Hybrid, Strong hybrid, Plug-in hybrid, Series hybrid and Series parallel hybrid electric vehicles and directed refund within six weeks without interest. Present petition disposed of with similar directions. Keywords: road tax exemption, hybrid electric vehicle, refund, no interest, writ tax, Uttar Pradesh.
What did the court decide?
Disposal with the same directions as in Parth Agarwal (supra), i.e., refund of the exempted road-tax amount paid by the petitioner within six weeks, with no interest payable.