2000 (8) TMI 414

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.... Shri J.M. George, JDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : Gowri Shankar, Member (T)]. -  The application is for waiver deposit of duty of Rs. 1.2934 crores and penalty of Rs. 64.67 lacs. 2. The Commissioner has ordered confiscation of the Gamma camera imported by the applicant on which duty is demanded. The camera is therefore in the control of the Customs department and the duty....

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.... annual certification by the officials of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to this effect. In any event, this was not the ground proposed in the notice for the denial of the notification. These grounds were only two. Firstly, registration fee of Rs. 10/- recovered from each person contravened the free treatment condition in the notification, and secondly, that 10% of beds were not....

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....n for free treatment, since it cannot then be said that the treatment was free. He also says that there is no specific reservation of 10% beds for the poor patients. 5. The object of the notification was obviously to ensure that the prescribed proportion of the patients of the poorest section of the society was given free treatment. This condition appears to us to have been complied with f....