2025 (1) TMI 404

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..... d of allowing the Petitioner to challenge the Show Cause Notice at this belated stage, we think that interest of justice would be better served if the Petitioner responds to the Show Cause Notice by raising all permissible defences, including the defence that the matter is covered by certain decisions of this Court. Learned counsel for the Petitioner states that reply will be filed to the Show Cau .....

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..... elies on this Court s order dated 23 October 2024 in Writ Petition No.1014 of 2019 to submit that similar challenges have already been decided by this Court. 4. Mr Mishra submits that Petitions challenging show cause notices should not ordinarily be entertained. He submits that if according to the Petitioner, the matter is covered, it is open to the Petitioner to rely upon the decisions covering t .....

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..... ll parties are however left open since we are not entering into the merits of the rival contentions or issues raised in this Petition. 7. Thus, by granting liberty to file reply within two weeks from today to the Show Cause Notice and directing the Adjudicating Authority to dispose of the Show Cause Notice by following the law, we dispose of this Petition and the Interim Application therein. 8. Th .....

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