The Gujarat HC has ordered Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to pay Rs 46.14 lakh as pending electricity duty to the state government, citing that the institute could not satisfy the criteria of being an ‘educational institute’.

A division bench of Chief Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Justice Akil Kureshi, while delivering the judgment directed the IIM-A to pay up electricity duty at non-concessional rates for period from 1993 to 1995 instead of concessional rates as it could not satisfy the criteria of being an ‘educational institute’.

IIM-A could not satisfy the criteria of being an ‘educational institute’ under the Bombay Electricity Act 1958 due to non-affiliation with Gujarat University