2000 (6) TMI 427

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....H.K. Jain, SDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : Justice K. Sreedharan, President]. -  Appellant claims to be manufacturers of ayurvedic medicines. By adjudication Order No. 178/DC/IND-1/CEX/98-99, dated 10-3-1999, the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise imposed a duty of Rs. 2,13,888/- under Section 11A of the Central Excise Act, 1944. Mandatory penalty of similar amount under Sectio....

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....tions and appeals filed before him. Atleast on six or seven earlier occasions we came across identically worded orders passed by him on stay petitions filed by the appellants before him. The stereo-typed order shows clear absence of application of mind to the facts of each case. Commissioner, we are pained to say, was not at all acting in a judicial manner. 3. In the instant case, the Repr....