Pre-import condition on Advance Authorisation imports became academic after earlier striking down of the same notifications.

The challenge to the pre-import condition attached to imports under Advance Authorisation licences had already been rendered academic by an earlier Division Bench decision striking down the same notifications. As the impugned condition no longer survived for adjudication, the HC disposed of the petition without examining the merits of the challenge.

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Issues: Whether the challenge to the pre-import condition imposed on imports under Advance Authorisation licences survived for adjudication in view of the prior Division Bench decision striking down the same notifications.

Outcome: The petition was disposed of as nothing remained to be adjudicated, the impugned condition having already been struck down in the earlier decision.

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