2026 (1) TMI 1449

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.... Mr.G.Venkatesan, who was issued with F-card by the Coimbatore Division of the Customs Department, has applied for customs brokering license for the petitioner company before the Chennnai Customs Division. The application submitted by G.Venkatesan on behalf of the petitioner company seeking customs brokering license has been returned by the impugned communication/order dated 17.10.2025 by the first respondent pointing out six deficiencies. The petitioner is aggrieved by the sixth deficiency alone which more fully described in paragraph No.6 of the impugned communication/order dated 17.10.2025. The petitioner is willing to comply with the other deficiencies pointed out in paragraph Nos.1 to 5 of the impugned communication/order dated 17.10.2....

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....s in the petitioner's application seeking for grant of a customs brokering licence. Therefore, according to them, the petitioner has filed this Writ Petition prematurely. 5. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner drew the attention of the Court to the following authority of the Bombay High Court made in W.P.No.8251 of 2023 in the case of Globotrans Prologisticx Pvt., Ltd., & anr Vs. Union of India & ors order dated 16.09.2025, in support of his contention and would submit that a F-card holder can represent the interest of the company, firm or individual before any customs department in India under CBLR, 2018. 6. The said submission made by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner that the F-card holder can practice a....

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.... as Mr.G.Venkatesan, who is the F-card holder must strictly adhere by the CBLR, 2018. In fact, before this Court, the petitioner has given an undertaking through his counsel that paragraph Nos.1 to 5 of the impugned communication will be strictly adhered to by the petitioner, as the petitioner is aggrieved only by one restriction namely paragraph No.6 imposed by the first respondent under the impugned communication with regard to Mr.G.Venkatesh (F-card holder) from representing the interest of the petitioner before the Customs department at Chennai for the purpose of obtaining customs brokering license for the petitioner at Chennai. Except for this grievance, the petitioner has no other grievance with regard to the impugned communication da....