2010 (4) TMI 86

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....l For the Respondents: Mr Roshan Lal Goel & Mr.Mukesh Anand CORAM:- Hon'ble Mr Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed Hon'ble Mr Justice V.K. Jain 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? Yes 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in Digest? Yes V.K. JAIN, J. 1. By this common order, we shall dispose of all the five writ petitions referred above, which involve identical questions of fact and law. 2. The petitioners are officers of the Customs Department. Show-cause notices were issued to the petitioners by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, requiring them to show cause as to why penal action under the provisions of Customs Act, 1962 be ....

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....r was shown as respondent. The address at which notice was to be sent to the respondent was the address of the exporter and not of the Customs Officers. Though Shri B.B.Goel, petitioner in WP.(C).1688/2010 has not filed a copy of the appeal of the Department in his case, we presume that the appeal filed against him was identical to the appeals filed against other petitioners. 4. The Tribunal vide Order dated 18.6.2009, remanded all the appeals filed by the Department against Customs Officers to the Adjudicating Authority for de novo proceedings, after noticing that none of the respondents was present. In the order passed by the Tribunal, the exporters were shown as respondents. None of the Customs Officers was shown as a respondent in th....