1987 (11) TMI 74

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....anath Iyer, Senior Advocate (M.K.D. Namboodry and S. Balakrishnan, Advocates, with him), for the petitioners. R.B. Datar and V.B. Saharya, Advocates, for the respondent. ORDER In this writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for the issue of writ in the nature of certiorari or any other appropriate order or direction quashing the order No. Tax/HQ/Spl. Cell/83-1948 dated August 4, 1983 i....

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....hear learned counsel for the parties on the question whether the above petition under article 32 of the Constitution should be decided by this court or whether we should direct the petitioners to approach the High Court under article 226 of the Constitution. Accordingly, we have heard learned counsel. We are of the view that this petition should be disposed of without expressing any opinion on ....

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.... relief at the High Court, they need not come here and to that extent the burden on this court is reduced. (4) The hearing of the case at the level of the High Court is more convenient from several angles and will be cheaper to the parties. It saves lot of time too. It will be easier for the clients to give instructions to their lawyers. (5) Our High Courts are High Courts. Each High Court h....

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.... if no new case is filed in this court hereafter, with the present strength of judges, it may, take more than 15 years to dispose of all the pending cases. (8) If the cases which can be filed in the High Courts are filed in the High Court and not in this court, this court's task of acting as a original court which is a time-consuming process can be avoided and this court will also have the bene....