2007 (11) TMI 717

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....(T) Shri V. Ravindran, Advocate, for the Appellant. Shri K.S. Reddy, JDR, for the Respondent. ORDER [Order per :  S.L. Peeran, Member (J)]. - Both the stay applications pertain to the same issue and hence they are taken up together for disposal as per law. The appellants were carrying on the activity of stevedoring. They were brought within the ambit of port services which they have conte....

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....is that in terms of the impugned order, they are required to pre-deposit Rs. 2.6 crores which is under contest. They also contend that the activity of stevedoring is not covered under the category of port services as held by the Tribunal in the cited judgments and other judgments. 3. Learned counsel submits that in view of the decisions already taken by the Tribunal on the issue in question in th....