Exempting armed forces from toll tax

[Col Madan Sharma (Veteran)]

My Dear Veteran Friends, You must Print this and keep it in your car.MM

 

I'm also attaching the NHAI letter clarifying the exemption for all serving service personnel, retired service personnel (yes!) and dependents (yes! yes!!). Keeping a copy in your car's glove compartment should be handy.   SC upholds 105-year law exempting armed forces from toll Upholding provisions of the 105-year old Indian Tolls Act, the Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a special leave petition (SLP) seeking withdrawal of concessions provided to Armed Forces personnel under the Act. A Division Bench comprising Mr Justice Ashok Bhan and Mr Justice Markandey Kadju declined to interfere in the directions issued by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which had dismissed a petition filed by a Chandigarh resident, Sanjeev, in May. Sanjeev had challenged the provisions of the Act on the ground that it was discriminatory, unconstitutional and against the spirit of Article 14 of the Constitution of India which provided for equality before law. He had also contended that other central government employees and members of the para military forces are not entitled to such concessions. The HC Division Bench, comprising Mr Justice H S Bedi and Mr Justice Ranjit Singh, however, ruled to the contrary and had dismissed the petitioner’s contentions. Thereafter, he had filed a SLP in the apex court against the HC order. Section 3(a) of the Indian Tolls (Army & Air Force) Act, 1901, provides for toll tax exemption on all public or private roads and bridges in India to officers and men of the regular forces whether they are on duty or not. Further civil vehicles and animals moving under military orders, are also exempted from payment of toll tax. The Act also has an overriding clause, which causes it to override all other Acts or directions by any legislature or central or state government in India. The controversy regarding applicability of the Act began a few years ago, when private toll operators under the Build-Operate- Transfer (BOT) system on various roads and bridges had started refusing toll exemption to defence personnel and in certain cases even to defence vehicles. The issue had then been settled after Chandigarh-based lawyer, Capt Navdeep Singh, took up the matter with the Central Government in 2004 and instructions were issued by government thereafter that the Act was very much applicable to toll roads and bridges being operated under the BOT schemes or otherwise. The instructions also clarified that the Act was applicable even to private vehicles belonging to personnel of the regular forces. While the problem of illegal charging of toll tax has more or less been settled with the instructions being circulated all over, sporadic incidents of harassment of defence personnel continue to be reported mainly from the Delhi-Noida- Delhi Flyway and from some areas of Himachal Pradesh. Madan Sharma

 

 

NHAI_LETTER.pdf

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Lt Col Madan Sharma 

Veteran Indian Infanteer
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Lt Col Madan Sharma 

Veteran Indian Infanteer
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[Achuthan]

Dear Veterans,

While thanking Col Madan Sharma for bringing out this NHAI letter, I
would like to caution all that let we should not be so euphoric on it.
Please check out the blogs of Maj. Navdeep Singh at the link below:

http://www.indianmilitary.info/search/label/toll%20tax

I have been getting this privilege on my road travels in the northern
part of Kerala, but I have seen many veterans express their anguish at
not getting it. If the legal luminary Maj. Navdeep Singh can be taken
as a reasonably good authority on the subject, what I am getting here
is probably due to the ignorance of the toll gate attendees....not a
privilege in its true sense. So I am not going to complain next time
when they stop me and ask me to pay up.

Regards

Achuthan
Sgt (retd)





On Jan 11, 6:28 am, "Col Madan Sharma (Veteran)" <madan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> My Dear Veteran Friends, You must Print this and keep it in your car.MM
>

> ****
> ** **
>
> *I'm also attaching the NHAI letter clarifying the exemption for all
> serving service personnel, **retired service personnel (yes!) and
> dependents (yes! yes!!). **Keeping a copy in your car's glove compartment
> should be handy.*****
>  ****
> *SC upholds 105-year law exempting armed forces from toll*****

> ** **
>  ****
> NHAI_LETTER.pdf<http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/10101883/701426069/name/NHAI_LETTER.pdf>
> ****
> .****
>
> *Lt Col Madan Sharma *
> *Veteran Indian Infanteer

> CONSERVE & HARVEST RAIN  WATER

> PLEASE GO GREEN BY USING BIODEGRADABLE PACKING MATERIAL*
>
> --
> *Lt Col Madan Sharma *
> *Veteran Indian Infanteer

> CONSERVE & HARVEST RAIN  WATER

> PLEASE GO GREEN BY USING BIODEGRADABLE PACKING MATERIAL*

[shaile...@alishatorrent.com]

The attached pdf is fake. Veterans are not exempt from paying toll - only serving soldiers are.

Lt Col SK Rai (Retd)

[sant...@gmail.com]

Fake letter

[SANTOSH KUMAR MISHRA]

MoRTH Clarification – Toll Exemption for Defence Personnel

File No. H-24030/32/2014-(Toll), Dated 17 June 2014
📄 Official Document Link (https://morth.gov.in/sites/default/files/Toll-2014.06.17-Clarification%20for%20exemption%20to%20Defence%20personnel%20OM%20dated%2017.06.2014.pdf)

Issued by: Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), Government of India

On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:22:59 AM UTC+5:30 sant...@gmail.com wrote:

Fake letter