2017 (6) TMI 1348

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....ORDER Dr. Satish Chandra, J. (President) 1. The present appeals have been filed by the appellant against the order Nos. 49/2013 dated 06.09.2013. 2. None appeared for the appellant. There is a request on record to decide the appellant's case on merit. We note that the notice in the present case was issued by DRI. 3. On the other hand, ld. Counsel for the Department has justified th....

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....ficers in terms of Section 2(34) of the Customs Act, 1962. 7. 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. 8. It is also noticed that in order to overcome the situation created by the judgment of Hon'ble Supreme Court in the....

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.....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 come 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) does not empower either the officers of DRI or the DGCEI to i....

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....dgment passed by the High Court of Delhi. Thus the issue is subjudice before the Hon'ble Supreme Court [2016-TIOL-173-SC-CUS/2016 (339) ELT A49 (SC)]. 13. 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 issue where the notice was also issued by DRI. The Ho....