https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=86908 The Assistant Collector lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate a dispute where the duty involved exceeded the monetary limit fixed by the Board's circular. An adjudication made beyond the authority's delegated pecuniary jurisdiction is void ab initio, and any subsequent proceedings based on that void order cannot stand. The matter therefore had to be placed before the competent authority within the proper adjudicatory limit, and the order was treated as a nullity. en-us Mon, 21 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:04:55 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=86908 The Assistant Collector lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate a dispute where the duty involved exceeded the monetary limit fixed by the Board's circular. An adjudication made beyond the authority's delegated pecuniary jurisdiction is void ab initio, and any subsequent proceedings based on that void order cannot stand. The matter therefore had to be placed before the competent authority within the proper adjudicatory limit, and the order was treated as a nullity. Case-Laws Central Excise Mon, 21 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=86908