2017 (8) TMI 984

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.... the Appellant Shri K. Veerabhadra Reddy, JC (AR) For the Respondent ORDER Per Bench The present appeals have been filed against the Order-in-Original No.4586/2006 dt. 31.1.2006 2. During the course of arguments, the importer's counsel has raised the preliminary plea that the show-cause notice in the case was issued by D.R.I. The Hon'ble High Court of Delhi in the case of Mangli....

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.... Customs Vs. Sayed Ali, 2011 (265) 17 (SC)], the DRI officers were not proper officers in terms of section 2(34) of the Customs Act, 1962. 6. It is also seen that after the declaration of law by the Hon'ble Supreme Court (Supra), the provisions of section 28 of the Customs Act, 1962 were amended with effect from 08.04.2011 vide Finance Act, 2011. 7. It is also noticed that in order to overco....

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....s DRI officers with retrospective effect. 9. Later on, i.e. for the period subsequent to the amendment, the matter i.e. the DRI officers having the proper jurisdiction to issue the SCN or not had came up before the Hon'ble Delhi High Court in the case of Mangali Impex Vs. Union of India [2016 (335) ELT 605 (Del.)], and the High Court inter alia, held that even the new inserted section 28 (11) d....

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....o on 07.10.2016 granted the stay of operation of the judgment passed by the High Court of Delhi. Thus the issue is sub judice before the Hon'ble Supreme Court [2016-TIOL-173-SC-CUS / 2016 (339) ELT A 49 (SC)]. 12. It may be mentioned that recently, the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi in the case of BSNL Vs. UOI vide writ petition No.C/4438/2017 and CM No.19387/2017 has dealt with the identical issu....