2014 (10) TMI 117

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....SCGSC, for the Respondent. ORDER This writ petition is directed against the order dated 13-6-2012, on the file of the 2nd respondent whereby and whereunder the statutory appeal preferred by the petitioner was rejected by way of a non-speaking order. 2. According to the petitioner, the 1st respondent initiated proceedings under the pretext that the goods imported by the concern was no....

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....orded that the adjudicating Commissioner has taken an appropriate view in determining levy of redemption fine and penalty which calls for no interference. The order does not contain any indication that the merits of the matter was considered by the 2nd respondent. 5. The authorities while exercising quasi-judicial functions must record reasons in support of their conclusion. It is not nece....

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....Court's judgment not sustainable. 8. Even in respect of administrative orders Lord Denning M.R. in Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union, 1971 (1) All E.R. 1148, observed : "The giving of reasons is one of the fundamental of good administration". In Alexander Machinery (Dudley) Ltd. v. Crabtree, 1974 LCR 120, it was observed: "Failure to give reasons amounts to denial of justice". Reasons....