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2012 (5) TMI 476 - AT - CustomsWhether Commissioner of Customs (Preventive), has jurisdiction to issue the show-cause notice - Counsel submits that he was not 'proper officer' as defined under Section 2(34) of the Customs Act inasmuch as there is no documentary material to show that the learned Commissioner had been assigned the function of issuing show-cause notice and adjudicating the same in relation to imports – Held that:- no evidence has been brought on record by the respondent to show that the Commissioner of Customs (Preventive) was specifically assigned the function of issuing the show-cause notice and adjudicating the same in relation to the subject imports, lack of jurisdiction for the Commissioner of Customs (Preventive) in this case becomes the common ground for allowing all the three appeals, order is set aside, appeals are allowed
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