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Issues: Whether the Customs and Central Excise Department could claim priority over a secured creditor enforcing its rights under Section 29 of the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951, and whether an injunction could restrain the secured creditor from selling the mortgaged property.
Analysis: The secured creditor had acted under Section 29 of the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 to enforce its security over the mortgaged plots. The Court applied the principle that State dues do not enjoy priority over secured debts and that such priority, if any, is only against unsecured creditors. Since the secured creditor was entitled to proceed against the mortgaged assets for recovery of its dues, the Customs Department could not claim a superior charge over those assets or seek temporary restraint against their sale.
Conclusion: The Department's claim to priority failed, and the secured creditor was entitled to deal with the mortgaged properties in accordance with law.
Final Conclusion: The impugned injunction order was set aside and the secured creditor was permitted to proceed with sale and other dealings in the secured assets.
Ratio Decidendi: State revenue dues do not override the rights of a secured creditor enforcing its statutory remedy against mortgaged assets, and an injunction cannot be granted to prevent such enforcement merely because government dues remain unpaid.
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