Writ petition challenged due to alternative remedy; SAT can resolve Global Depository Receipts issue despite 16-year delay.

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....Maintainability of writ petition - alternative and efficacious mechanism - Inordinate delay in issue of Show cause notice (around 16 years) - Issuance of Global Depository Receipts ('GDRs') by the 4th respondent - Courts shall normally refrain from quashing the show cause notice at the initial stage, unless the said show cause notice has been issued without authority or that the same is patently illegal. In the case on hand, the show cause notice has been issued by the authority, who is competent to issue the same and that there is no illegality in the said show cause notice - SAT is fully competent to decide the issue, including appreciation of disputed facts and the petitioners can place both oral and documentary evidence before SAT, which can go in-depth into the issue to render a finding. - HC....