Social forestry expenditure requires activity-based classification, limiting book-profit adjustments and preserving penalty relief where normal additi...
Writ jurisdiction ordinarily should not bypass the customs appellate mechanism where an effective further statutory remedy exists and resolving the challenge requires examination of disputed facts or merits. Mandatory pre-deposit is a condition for entertaining the statutory appeal and is not ordinarily avoided through a writ petition merely on financial-hardship grounds. Alleged denial of cross-examination and challenges to evidence, penalty legality, or adjudication generally belong before the competent appellate forum when inseparable from the merits. The petition was dismissed without merits review, with liberty to pursue the available appellate remedy and all merits issues left open.
Writ jurisdiction ordinarily should not bypass the customs appellate mechanism where an effective further statutory remedy exists and resolving the challenge requires examination of disputed facts or merits. Mandatory pre-deposit is a condition for entertaining the statutory appeal and is not ordinarily avoided through a writ petition merely on financial-hardship grounds. Alleged denial of cross-examination and challenges to evidence, penalty legality, or adjudication generally belong before the competent appellate forum when inseparable from the merits. The petition was dismissed without merits review, with liberty to pursue the available appellate remedy and all merits issues left open.
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