2020 (9) TMI 82

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....RI.SREELAL N WARRIER,SC JUDGMENT The petitioner herein states that he holds a valid import export code for import of food grains and cereals. He imported a consignment of Canadian Green Peas, which is a commodity whose import is restricted by Ext.P1 notification. Under the said notification, that is apparently issued with a view to protect domestic trade in the said commodity, strict conditi....

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.... same order, the Supreme Court has also indicated that the request of the importers concerned for interim directions, would be taken up by that Court pending disposal of the transferred petitions. It is in this factual backdrop that I am called upon to consider the prayer of the petitioner in the instant writ petition, to permit a provisional clearance of the goods imported by him pending a consid....

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....F and it is not in dispute that the price at which the petitioner imported the commodity is significantly lower than the minimum import price stipulated. The goods, if allowed to be provisionally cleared, would enter the domestic market, thereby frustrating the very objective of the notification issued by the Central Government. 4. That apart, the challenge to the notification itself is pending....