India, Dec. 3 -- With the next episode of popular music festival, Sunburn, scheduled in Mumbai for December 20, the organisers have been told by the state government to cough up pending dues totalling just under Rs.1 crore. That's Rs.42.92 lakh in stamp duty and over Rs.50 lakh in penalties for non-payment of stamp duty. The dues relate to the leave and licence agreement for the venue of the 2016 edition of the festival held in Pune.

Percept Live Private Limited, which had organised the festival in 2016, had leased a 5.4-hectare land parcel at Kesnand village in Haveli tehsil in Pune, after signing a five-year lease deed, according to a report by the stamp duty officer of Pune. Atul Choradia and others are the licensors in the case.

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