2023 (1) TMI 1518

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....dents : Mr. Asheesh Jain, CGSC with Mr. Gaurav Kumar & Mr. Vishal Kumar, Mr. Jatin Puniyani, Advs. ORDER 1. The petitioner has filed the present petition, inter alia, impugning an order dated 14.11.2019 whereby the petitioner's request for grant of the benefit under "the Merchandise Export from India Scheme (MEIS)" was rejected on the ground that manual amendments would not be possible. 2....

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....value of Rs. 34,15,924/-. 3. The learned counsel appearing for the respondents, states that a committee of officers, which was constituted pursuant to orders passed in another matter - Jubilant Biosys Limited v Direcotrate General of Foreign Trade and Others: W.P.(C) 14754/2022 - has taken a lenient view. In the said case, the petitioner (Jubilant Biosys Limited) had been denied the benefit of ....

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....s under: "6. This Court is informed that in compliance with the aforesaid order, a meeting of concerned officers was held on 08.12.2022. A copy of the minutes of the said meeting had been handed over to this Court. Paragraph nos. 4 and 5 of the said minutes read as under: "4. In exceptional cases the customs as per defined procedure amends the SBs from 'N' to 'Y' in MEIS SBs unde....

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....ll be decided within a period of six weeks thereafter." 5. This Court is of the view that the similar benefits ought to be extended to the petitioner in this case as well. The petitioner's case stands on a better footing as it had clearly indicated that it intended to take the benefit of the MEIS scheme. Thus, the error of not marking 'Y' against the reward column is clearly an inadvertent erro....