1997 (3) TMI 106

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.... 3104 of 1991 is under challenge. It appears that statements under Section 108 of the Customs Act and Section 40 under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act were recorded by the concerned officers. It was at this stage, one of the person making such statement and the wife of another person making the statement, moved writ petitions praying for issue of writ in the nature of habeas corpus so that the....

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.... v. Supdt. of Central Excise and Ors. 1992 (60) E.L.T. 24 (S.C.) = 1992 (3) SCR 247 wherein it has been observed by this Court that if during the litigation, orders of stay have been passed from time to time and the matters have remained pending for no fault on the part of the concerned departments of the Union of India, the entire period for which the cases have remained pending either in this Co....