2017 (3) TMI 1017

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.... by Shri Piyush Kumar, Advocate for the appellant. Rep. by Shri Govind Dixit, DR for the respondent. ORDER The misc. application is for condonation of delay in filing the appeal before the Tribunal. The impugned order was passed by the Commissioner of Customs, (Preventive), IGI Airport, New Delhi, on 26.06.2015. The appeal against the said order was filed by the appellant on 15.12.2016 re....

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....rder in the residential address. Regarding the non-existence of the appellant in the given business address, neither the counsel for the applicant nor the proprietor could provide any satisfactory explanation. 3. Ld. AR stated that during the course of inquiry by the officers at the time of import, Shri Hari Singh Vishta, Proprietor of the importing firm categorically stated that M/s. Saral Com....

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.... AR submitted that the appellant deliberately provided a false address and now cannot plead that the Department failed to serve the impugned order to him. Even the letter requesting for copies of the impugned order and other documents had mentioned the same address of the appellant. The revenue recovery action by the department was initiated based upon inquiry about the whereabouts of the appellan....

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....-leading. The same could not be rebutted by the applicant with any conviction. The plea taken by the applicant that the order could have been served in his residential address is not acceptable. The impugned order is to be sent to the address declared by the applicant in the filings made before the Department. The Department found that various other addresses including residential, during the cour....