2018 (12) TMI 510

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....pondent : ADV. SRI. B. RAJESH (KOTTAYAM) JUDGMENT MBK Logistics Pvt. Ltd., the petitioner, as a steamer agent, handles various vessels and cargo in Cochin Customs area. On 26th November 2018, it received the Ext.P4 order from the Commissioner of Customs. Through the notice, the Customs Department suspended the MBK Logistics's Ext.P2 registration. Aggrieved, it has filed this writ petition. 2. ....

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....uspension should either follow a detailed notice, or provide by itself all the grounds for suspension. According to him, in the first fifteen days from the date of suspension, the Department can put the licensee on notice and then complete the entire adjudication in the next fifteen days. So the Ext.P4 is unassailable, he concludes. 4. Heard Sri P.G. Jayashankar, the learned counsel for the petit....

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.... enquiry against such Customs Broker is pending or contemplated: Provided that where the Principal Commissioner or Commissioner of Customs may deem fit for reasons to be recorded in writing, he may suspend the license for a specified number of Customs Stations. (2) Where a license is suspended under sub-regulation (1), the Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the ....

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....t, an economic death sentence-visits upon the licensee with severe financial consequences. So it offends the notions of justice and constitutional morality if the authorities take too technical a view of the provisions dealing with suspension of license. 8. To meet the ends of justice, I hold that, as mandated under the Regulation 16, the Customs Department will immediately inform MBK Logistics, ....