2013 (4) TMI 251

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....ar Reddy, SR SC for Customs and Central Excise. JUDGEMENT:- 1. Heard the counsel for the petitioner and Sri A. Rajashekar Reddy, Sri Gopala Krishna Gokhaley and Sri Jalakam Sathyaram, learned Standing counsel for the respondents in the several writ petitions. 2. As the core of the grievances presented in these writ petitions falls within a narrow compass in so far as the judicial review is con....

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....peals, as the case may be. It is the common refrain in the writ petitions, reiterated in oral argument by the learned counsel that the Bangalore Bench of the Tribunal is not functioning on account of a vacancy in the office of the Technical Member; and the Tribunal is unable therefore to take up the petitioners applications for waiver for pre-deposit and for grant of stay of levy of the tax, inter....

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....est and penalties, as determined, by the Orders-in-Original or as confirmed in orders in appeal, as the case may be. 5. Having heard learned counsel for the respective parties and in the context of the current ineffectual functioning of the Tribunal, a fact not disputed by the Revenue, we consider it appropriate to dispose of the writ petitions directing the respondents not to initiate any coerci....