Writ Petition Valid u/s 18 of Customs Act Despite Alternative Remedy if Fundamental Rights Breached or Order Flawed.

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....Jurisdiction - invocation of provisions of Section 18 of the Customs Act - reclassifying the same product - notwithstanding the petitioners having a statutory alternative remedy by way of an appeal, the writ petition is maintainable, if the petitioners substantiate that, fundamental rights stand breached or that, the impugned order is without jurisdiction or was passed in breach of the principles of natural justice is non-speaking....