2024 (11) TMI 596 - HC - Customs

Inordinate delay in disposal of the Show Cause Notice - HELD THAT - By adopting the reasoning in our judgment and order disposing of the connected Writ petition challenging the very same impugned show cause notice, we allow this Petition and quash and set aside the impugned show cause notice - We also retrain the respondents from taking further steps against the petitioner based on the impugned show cause notice we have now quashed.

Summary

The High Court of Bombay quashed a show cause notice dated September 24, 2003, in response to a petition challenging the delay in its disposal. The court restrained further action based on the notice and made the rule absolute without costs. The connected writ petition with similar facts was also disposed of in a separate judgment.