2025 (7) TMI 582

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....s made returnable immediately at the request of and with the consent of the learned Counsel for the parties. 3. This Petition seeks the following substantive reliefs:- "(i) Your Lordships may be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus or a writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order, or directions, to the Respondent No. 4 and 5 for making the necessary changes in EDI system and transmitting the details to DGFT w.r.t. 174 Nos of shipping bills. (ii) Your Lordships may be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus or a writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order, or directions, to the Respondent No. 2 and 3 for allowing the MEIS rewards w.r.t. 174 Nos of shipping bills." 4. Mr Ashis....

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....t that the DGFT cannot refuse to process the MEIS applications for reasons not attributable to the Petitioner. 9. We have considered the rival contentions and are satisfied that the issues raised in this matter are covered by the decisions in Technocraft Industries (supra) and Larsen & Toubro Limited (supra). 10. Accordingly, there is no justification for the DGFT not processing the Petitioner's MEIS applications with respect to the 174 shipping bills due to some systemic glitches, which appear to have now been largely resolved. 11. In Larsen & Toubro (supra), in somewhat similar circumstances, we were constrained to make the following observations at paragraphs 24 and 26, which read as follows:- "24. Artificial intelligen....