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1984 (3) TMI 391 - SC - CustomsContempt of Court - Interim Relief - Held that:- The High Court not having set any limit of time for the disposal of the applications, it was not for the writ petitioners to impose a time-limit and demand that their applications should be disposed of forthwith. If the writ petitioners were aggrieved by the failure of their authorities to dispose of their applications expeditiously, it was open to them to seek a further direction from the court to fixing a limit of time within which the applications were to be disposed of. We fail to see how the Chief Controller of Imports and Exports or the Deputy Chief Controller of Imports and Exports could be said to have committed any contempt of court, even prima facie, by their mere failure to take action in the matter of the disposal of the applications of the writ petitions. In the circumstances, we perceive the application to commit the authorities for contempt of courts to be a device to exact licences from them. We accordingly allow the appeal, vacate the interim order dated November 22, 1983 of the Calcutta High Court
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