2000 (7) TMI 418

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....pondent. [Order per : C.N.B. Nair, Member (T)]. - Today the case is posted for consideration of stay application. We, however, find that the Order-in-Original is only an order suspending the Custom House Agent licence of the appellant for a period of one year from 9-9-1999 (though the order itself was pessed only on 28-3-2000). 2. Ld. Counsel for appellant requests for taking up the ....

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.... not preliminary to passing of final order. The Ld. Counsel also submits that it is common practice that suspension is resorted to only when punishment is proposed, as suspension in itself is not a punishment. He also referred to the decision of this Tribunal in the case of Vishwanath Shipping Agencies v. CC, Mumbai [1999 (105) E.L.T. 695] wherein the Tribunal accepted the plea that suspension ord....