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2015 (7) TMI 255 - HC - Money LaunderingMaintainability of appeal - Availability of alternate remedy - Held that:- Even aggrieved by the order of the Appellate Tribunal the Statute under Section 42 of the PML Act provides for an appeal on any question of law or fact to the High Court. Thus, even accepting the version of the petitioner that the impugned order is a non-reasoned order and the Appellate Court would not have the benefit of reasoning before it however such order is also an appealable order and wherein the Appellate Court on appreciation of facts and law can form its opinion. There is no denial that giving reasons is one of the fundamentals of good administration and failure to give reasons amounts to denial of justice. However, it is not a principle of law that if an order of a competent authority is bereft of reasons, the appellate authority is denuded of its statutory jurisdiction to entertain the appeal. However, brevity of reasoning cannot be understood in legal parlance as absence of reasoning. While no reasoning in support of order whether judicial/quasi-judicial order is impermissible, the brief reasoning would suffice to meet the ends of justice at least at interlocutory stages and would render the remedy of appeal purposeful and meaningful. - without dwelling into the merits of the matter since the case of the petitioners do not fall in the exceptions as laid down in Whirlpool Corporation (1998 (10) TMI 510 - SUPREME COURT), the writ petitions and applications are dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to avail the alternative efficacious remedies available under Section 26 of the PML Act - Decided against Appellant.
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