Narendra Kumar Jain v. Joint Commissioner, Customs (Preventive) And ANR.
$~24 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 4th March, 2020 + W.P.(C) 2443/2020 and CM No.8546/2020 NARENDRA KUMAR JAIN ..... Petitioner Through:
Mr. Ramakant Gaur, Ms. Sneha Arya and Ms. Prerna Agarwal, Advs.
versus JOINT COMMISSIONER, CUSTOMS (PREVENTIVE) AND ANR. ..... Respondents Through:
Mr.
Amit Bansal, Sr.
Standing Counsel with Mr. Aman Rewaria and Ms. Vipasha Mishra, Advs. for R-1 Mr. Satish Aggarwala, Sr. Standing Cousnel with Mr. Gagan Vaswani, Adv. for R-2/DRI
CORAM:
HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C.HARI SHANKAR
O R D E R
% 04.03.2020 D.N. PATEL, CHIEF JUSTICE (ORAL) W.P.(C) 2443/2020 1.
Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, after canvassing some arguments, fairly conceded that the Order in Original dated 11th December, 2019 (Annexure P-1), which is under challenge, is an appealable order and hence petitioner is not pressing this petition. However, learned counsel for the petitioner requests that appellate authority may be directed to consider W.P.(C) 2443/2020
the time consumed from filing of this writ petition till today while adjudicating the application for condonation of delay in filing the appeal. 2.
In view of this limited submission, this petition is disposed of as not pressed at this stage.
3.
However, the questions of cross examination, which has been adjudicated at length, is not pressed now for the reason that the same will be pressed before the Appellate Authority. Hence, Appellate Authority will look into the aforesaid questions of cross examination and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law 4.
Moreover, As and when appeal is preferred by this petitioner against Order in Original dated 11th December, 2019 (Annexure P-1) the concerned Appellate Authority shall appreciate the time consumed from filing of this writ petition till today while adjudicating the application for condonation of delay in filing the appeal.
CM No.8546/2020 (stay) 5.
In view of the disposal of the writ petition, this application also stands disposed of.
CHIEF JUSTICE C.HARI SHANKAR, J.
MARCH 04, 2020/kr W.P.(C) 2443/2020