1993 (7) TMI 87

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....ovided for import of cars. Clause (F) of Appendix 6, inter alia, stated that persons who are physically handicapped can import cars and for which import licence or CCP will not be necessary for clearance of a vehicle. To enable a person, who is physically handicapped to import car, the Appendix provided that the state Civil Surgeon or head of concerned wing in a Government Hospital must issue a ce....

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....on recommended import of car as hand operated automatic change of gear system. 2. Some time after May 25, 1983, the Section Officer, Government of India, Ministry of Finance, informed the petitioner that the permission to import car with duty concession is regulated by Notification dated May 25, 1983 and Notification requires satisfaction of certain conditions. The petitioner advised to approac....

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....ndered before December 27, 1982. The second ground was that proof of income was not produced, while the last ground was that on scrutiny of medical certificate, the disability shown was not sufficient to justify import of specially designed car. The decision was communicated to the petitioner by letter dated October 13, 1986. In the meanwhile, on March 20, 1984, the petitioner filed the present pe....

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....ut in Appendix 6 of Import-Export Policy, 1982-83. The learned counsel further submitted that the claim of the Screening Committee that the application was not filed before December 27, 1982 and proof of income was not produced is not correct. We will accept the claim of the learned counsel and proceed to examine whether the third ground that the disability claimed by the petitioner was not suffic....