2006 (6) TMI 288

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..... e Respondent. [Order per : P.G. Chacko, Member (J) (for the Bench)]. This application is for a direction to the Commissioner for payment of interest to the applicant on Indian currency of Rs. 3,80,150/- which remained in the custody of the Department from 2-12-1988 to 27-10-2005. The prayer is for a relief claimed to be consequential to Final Order No. 1039/2005, dated 25-7-2005 passed b .....

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..... Co. v. Commissioner of Customs - 2005 (180) E.L.T. 152 (Cal.), wherein this Tribunal was held to have supervisory powers for awarding interest on redemption fine which was belatedly released by the Customs authorities. Learned SDR, on the other hand, submits that the claim for interest was not consequential to the final order. Confiscation of the currency was set aside in that order and, consequen .....

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