[Letter to The Collector Of Bombay]

Summary

This two-page English administrative letter, dated August 12, 1974, is marked “TRUE COPY” and signed by V. P. Bhatia, Executive Secretary. Addressed to the Collector of Bombay, it responds to a demand for payment of land revenue under Section 267 of the Maharashtra Act No. XLI of 1966 concerning three vehicles registered in the name of Minocher Rustom Masani. The letter states that the vehicles had been purchased in January 1967, subsequently sent to West Bengal and Jaipur, and later sold rather than returned to Bombay.

Bhatia asks the Collector to contact the Bombay Regional Transport Office and obtain corrected records, asserting that the sender’s records show no amount due to the Bombay RTO or anyone else in Bombay. The second rendered page is an attached Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay bill-cum-receipt for a jeep, showing a vehicle tax charge of Rs. 35 for the period July 1972 to September 1972 and bearing dated stamps and signatures.

Key points

• The document is a true copy of a letter dated August 12, 1974, addressed to the Collector of Bombay.
• V. P. Bhatia signs as Executive Secretary and disputes a demand for land revenue under Section 267 of the Maharashtra Act No. XLI of 1966.
• The dispute concerns vehicles MRA 4092, MRA 4095, and MRA 4096 registered in the name of Minocher Rustom Masani.
• The letter says the vehicles were moved to West Bengal and Jaipur and later sold to the Cement Marketing Company of India and Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur.
• The signatory asks the Collector to obtain corrected records from the Bombay RTO.
• An attached municipal bill-cum-receipt records Rs. 35 in vehicle tax for a jeep for the period July 1, 1972, to September 30, 1972.