2004 (2) TMI 85

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....n rise to this petition under Article 227 of the Constitution were the letters from the Superintendent of Central Excise & Customs, Range-I, Division-III, Baroda to the petitioner-Company issued between 2nd July and 6th October, 1987 (Annexures "A" to "E" to the petition) requiring the petitioners to pay appropriate central excise duty on prepared culture media manufactured by the petitioner and a....

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....ering excise duty on the intermediate products that come into existence during the course of manufacture of antibiotics in the petitioners' factory. The ad interim relief was, however, granted subject to the petitioners giving security for the amount of excise duty claimed by the respondents. 3.When this petition has reached final hearing today, Mr. Rakesh Gupta, learned counsel for the petitio....

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....oner-Company would raise the necessary defences before the authorities at the hearing of the show cause notices. The learned counsel, therefore, seeks leave to withdraw this petition without prejudice to the rights and contentions of the petitioner-Company raised in this petition. 4.Since the petition is directed against the tentative view which was taken by the department way back in the ye....