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TMI Blog2023 (3) TMI 29X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ly, the respondents will have to take a decision on the petitioner's application seeking for provisional release as per the said section - Admittedly, no final orders have been passed by the respondents with regard to the requests made by the petitioner seeking for provisional release of the imported goods by its representations, dated 06.02.2023 and 24.01.2023. This Court is not expressing any opinion on the merits of the matter. However, necessarily the respondents will have to consider the petitioner's representation seeking for provisional release of the imported goods and decide the said representation on merits and in accordance with law, within a time frame to be fixed by this Court - however, since the respondents contend ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... y have filed these writ petitions. 2. Heard Mr.B.Satish Sundar, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr.S.Gurumoorthy, learned counsel for the respondents 1 to 3 in all writ petitions and Mr.V.Sundareswaran, learned Senior Panel Counsel for the 4th respondent in all writ petitions. 3. A counter affidavit has also been filed by the 4th respondent stating that the petitioner has not disclosed the true value of the imported goods and the matter is under investigation. It is further stated that the documents submitted by the petitioner are also forged documents. The Bills of Entry were filed by the petitioner only after the goods arrived at Airport, Chennai in the month of July 2022. According to the petitioner, the imported goods pertaini ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... , the respondents ought to have released the goods to the petitioner and without passing any seizure or detention order, the respondents have arbitrarily and illegally withheld the imported goods and not released the same to the petitioner till date. 8. This Court is not expressing any opinion on the merits of the matter. However, necessarily the respondents will have to consider the petitioner's representation seeking for provisional release of the imported goods and decide the said representation on merits and in accordance with law, within a time frame to be fixed by this Court. 9. However, since the respondents contend that the representations submitted by the petitioner seeking for provisional release of the goods is not in a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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