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Issues: Whether the applicants in de-notification proceedings were entitled to summon and cross-examine the Custodian.
Analysis: The applications were considered under section 4(2) of the Special Court (Trial of Offences Relating to Transactions in Securities) Act, 1992, under which an aggrieved person may object to a notification and the Special Court may pass such order as it deems fit after hearing the parties. The decision whether a notified person should remain notified is thus for the Court to determine on the material before it. The Custodian's subjective satisfaction in issuing the notification was held to be irrelevant in these proceedings, and the Court was not required to test that satisfaction by oral cross-examination. The applicants had to make out a case for de-notification before the Court itself, and no necessity for cross-examining the Custodian arose.
Conclusion: The request to cross-examine the Custodian was rejected.
Ratio Decidendi: In proceedings under section 4(2), the Special Court independently determines the validity of a notification on the material before it, and the Custodian's prior satisfaction is not the issue for adjudication; therefore, cross-examination of the Custodian is ordinarily unnecessary.