2014 (3) TMI 170

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....eeraj Chaudhari, CGSC JUDGMENT Manmohan, J: (Oral) 1. Present writ petitions have been filed seeking quashing of the orders dated 20th November, 2003 passed by Special Director, Directorate of Enforcement under The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 imposing penalty of Rs. 50 lacs on each of the petitioners. 2. Mr. Mohit Mathur, learned counsel for petitioners submits that despite r....

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....it petitions as soon as they came to know about the impugned orders from the order of recoveries passed by respondent no. 3. He emphasises that there is no delay in filing the present writ petitions. 5. Having perused the paper book, this Court finds that though respondent no. 2 was aware as far back as 17th July, 2000 about the new address of petitioners (as is apparent from the summons issued....

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.... no. 3 in the year 2012. 7. As far as plea of alternative effective remedy is concerned, this Court is of the opinion that alternative remedy is only a rule of prudence and not a statutory prohibition. It is settled law that when there is violation of principles of natural justice, a writ petition is certainly maintainable. In Whirlpool Corpn. Vs. Registrar of Trade Marks, (1998) 8 SCC 1 the Su....

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..... There is a plethora of case-law on this point but to cut down this circle of forensic whirlpool, we would rely on some old decisions of the evolutionary era of the constitutional law as they still hold the field. xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx 20. Much water has since flown under the bridge, but there has been no corrosive effect on these decisions which, though old, continue to hold the field with t....