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.... (i) issue a writ of certiorari quashing the show cause notices, dated l5-12-1999. (ii) issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to grant refunds of Rs. 10,40,938/-  and Rs. 9,38,771/- forthwith along with interest upto date at the rate of 18% per annum. 2.  The peritioner's case is that by the Finance Act, 1994 a tax known as service tax was leviable and by the Servic....

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....2) E.I.T. 365 (S.C) and the amounts deposited by the petitioners before the Supreme Court who were customers or clients of the Clearing and Forwarding Agents or of the Goods Transport Operators were ordered to be refunded within 12 weeks on their making a demand for refund. In pursuance of the aforesaid Judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, the petitioner has preferred claims for refund of the af....

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.... be dealt with under Section 11B of the Central Excise Act, 1944." 3. A counter affidavit has been filed in which the aforesaid assertion that was made in the show cause notice has not been repealed.  We have gone through the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in MafatLal Industries Ltd. v. Union of India, 1997 (89) E.L.T. 247 (S.C.) and we find that the judgment cannot be read to....