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2013 (1) TMI 151 - HC - CustomsJurisdiction of court - DEPB licenses - Petitioners purchased through their agents, three DEPB licenses - DEPB licences were obtained through fraud - Customs authorities refused to permit imports against such license – Held that:- The DEPB licences were issued in favour of M/s. Yash Exports at Varanasi. The port of export was shown at Varanasi. The licences were issued by DGFT, New Delhi. Such licences were transferred in favour of the petitioners also by the same authority. On the basis of purchase of such licences the petitioners imported goods which landed at Mumbai. The customs authorities at Mumbai refused to permit imports thereof on the basis of the DEPB licences so purchased by the petitioners. Clearly no part of the cause of action can be stated to have arisen within the local limits of this court. The ultimate order that the Joint Director of Foreign Trade passed was also at New Delhi. The ultimate order cancelling the licences which the petitioners have challenged in the petition subsequently, was also passed by the authority at New Delhi. Merely because the officer of DRI issued a summons to the petitioners during the course of investigation, would not give any jurisdiction to us to entertain this petition. In favour of revenue
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