Gujarat High Court quashes 20-year-old water bill, warns State against ‘retrospective’ financial burdens
4 min readVadodaraApr 21, 2026 10:54 PM IST In a significant ruling reinforcing contractual certainty and limits on retrospective state action under the principle of estoppel, the Gujarat High Court recently set aside a Rs 146.79 lakh demand retrospectively raised by the state government against Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) for alleged unpaid water charges pertaining…