Chennai: Call it a relief to actor Vijay. A division bench of the Madras High Court today stayed a single bench judgment which had passed adverse observations against him and had imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on him for filing a petition challenging the levy of entry tax on his Rolls Royce car.
Vijay had appealed to the division bench aggrieved by the remarks made by the single bench against him and against the acting community in general while dismissing his petition. His counsel Vijay Narayan made it clear before the division bench that he was not challenging the entry tax demand, and was only challenging the scathing observations in the judgment.
While staying the single bench order, a division bench comprising Justices S Duraiswamy and R Hemalatha directed Vijay to pay the balance 80 per cent entry tax within a week of demand challan issued by the tax department.
Advocate Vijay Narayan requested the bench to direct the department to issue the challan within a week, saying that he does not want the issue to be hanging for long. Accordingly, the bench directed the department to raise the demand within a week.