2006 (12) TMI 506

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....am, Advocate. For the Respondent : Ms. Pooja Bhaskar, Advocate. ORDER 1. At the very threshold we disapprove of the practice of a judicial/quasi-judicial Tribunal/Authority which in this case is the CESTAT, and whose orders are impugned, being impleaded as a Respondent. The Registry is directed not to register any Petition which arrays as a respondent a judicial/quasi-judicial Tribunal/Au....

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....ranted, the six months period would have expired, thereby rendering the entire proceedings non est. 3. Learned counsel for the Petitioner relies on the decision of the Constitution Bench in I.J.Rao, Asstt. Collr. of Customs vs. Bibhuti Bhushan Singh, 1989 (42) E.L.T. 338 (S.C.). Their Lordships had stressed the importance of taking a well-informed and reasoned decision on the question whether a....