2011 (2) TMI 1204

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.... V.K. Singh, SDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : P.G. Chacko, Member (J)]. -  One of the applications filed by the appellant (A Customs House Agents) seeks stay of operation of the order passed by the Commissioner of Customs, Aurangabad and the other application is for out-of-turn disposal of the appeal itself. On a perusal of the records and upon hearing both sides, we note that the ....

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....on to Aurangabad and Mundra. The grievance of the appellant is that, on account of the above suspension of licence by the Commissioner of Customs, Aurangabad, they are not able to carry on their business in other places where they did not commit any offence. The learned consultant has reiterated this grievance before us and has also submitted that nearly 40 employees of the CHA are jobless and suf....

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.... is ordinarily resorted to either pending investigation or contemplating it. Admittedly, no investigations are pending. There must be a limit for the Commissioner to go on contemplating investigation. The undue delay in this regard is certainly doing violence to the mandate of Regulation 20(2). It is this aspect which prompts us to take the view that the CHA should not be prevented from carrying o....