1983 (11) TMI 217

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....ntral Government Standing Counsel, for the Respondents. [Order]. - The petitioners are manufacturers of stainless steel utensils and they are getting allotments from the Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation as actual users. It appears that five R.E.P. licence were obtained by various registered exporters under Policy 77-78 and 78-79 for a sum of Rs. 1,19,237. The said registered exporters....

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....r enter into any commitment. To this, the petitioners replied on 9th December, 1978, stating that they had already opened letter of credit on 7th December, 1978, and consequently committed themselves. Notwithstanding this, the first respondent issued a show cause notice on 21st December, 1978, asking the petitioners to show cause why the endorsement already made for the import of stainless steel/s....

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.... writ petition was admitted on 8th March, 1979, and the petitioners filed an additional affidavit on 3rd April, 1979, a copy of which has been served on the then Counsel for the Central Government. In the additional affidavit the petitioners have alleged that the first respondent has issued licences to persons similarly situated like the petitioners, and therefore the impugned order was challenged....