2023 (12) TMI 18

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....Mahajan, Mr. Ishaan Dhingra, Mr. Mridul Tiwari, Advocates For the Respondents Through: Mr. Aditya Singla, Advocate for CBIC JUDGMENT MANMOHAN, ACJ : (ORAL) 1. Present public interest petition has been filed seeking quashing of the impugned Circular instruction No. 22/2022-Customs dated 06th September, 2022 and Circular instruction No. 27/2021-Customs dated 03rd December, 2021, to the e....

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....ey fail to differentiate between 'seized' gold jewellery and 'confiscated' gold jewellery. 3. After hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner at some length, this Court is of the view that the present petition is not maintainable as it is a settled principle of law that an aggrieved person must approach the Court. The standing doctrine characteristic is that a potential litigant must be in....

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....g Committee & Anr. vs. C.K. Rajan & Ors., (2003) 7 SCC 546 has held as under:- "41. The courts exercising their power of judicial review found to their dismay that the poorest of the poor, the depraved (sic), the illiterate, the urban and rural unorganized labour sector, women, children, those handicapped by "ignorance, indigence and illiteracy" and other downtrodden persons have either n....

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....32 : 1976 SCC (L&S) 517 : (1976) 3 SCR 591] .) 42. The Court in pro bono publico proceedings intervened when there had been callous neglect as a policy of State, a lack of probity in public life and abuse of power in control and destruction of the environment. It also protected inmates of prisons and homes. It sought to restrain exploitation of labour practices." 5. At this stage, lear....