The Bombay High Court today directed that Union of India be made a party to a PIL filed by a Shiv Sena leader regarding levy of entertainment tax on IPL.
The court also allowed the petitioner Shiv Sena Subhash Desai to make Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar a party to the case since there are some allegation against him in the petition.
The PIL demands that Maharashtra government should recover entertainment tax from the IPL organisers.
It also alleges that the state government in January this year had decided to levy entertainment tax on IPL, but the decision was not implemented. The court adjourned the hearing till June 22.
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