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2016 (3) TMI 611 - HC - CustomsRejection of claim for recovery of demurrage charges - Writ petition - Validity of order - Seeking invokation of Article 226 of the Constitution of India - Held that:- when there is a dispute with regard to demurrage charges claimed by the petitioner as against the 2nd respondent, the same cannot be decided by this Court in the Writ Petition, when the 2nd respondent had paid the duty payable to the 1st respondent and the Dock officials had issued out of charge orders. The 1st respondent had rightly observed that once the customs duty was realized, the goods cannot be included in the Lot for fresh auction. The Writ Petition is filed in public law remedy. While exercising the power of judicial review is concerned with illegality, irrationality and procedural impropriety of an order passed by the State or a Statutory Authority, the remedy under Article 226 of the Constitution cannot be invoked for resolution of a private law dispute as contra-distinguished from a dispute involving public law character. The petitioner cannot force the 1st respondent to conduct an auction so as to recover the demurrage charges from the 2nd respondent, even though the 1st respondent does not have any control over the goods. - Decided against the petitioner
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