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2021 (10) TMI 946 - SC - CustomsInvestigation proceedings regarding the anti-dumping - all that the High Court has done is to issue notice in the writ petition and the interlocutory applications calling upon the parties to file responses. - Recalcitrant attitude of the Government in not appointing High Court Judges for years together even where the recommendations have been cleared by the Collegium - HELD THAT:- If we peruse the impugned order, all that the High Court has done is to issue notice in the writ petition and the interlocutory applications calling upon the parties to file responses. This can hardly be a stage of a proceeding where the Supreme Court of the country should be asked to step in. The factual matrix paints an even a sorrier picture of the Government’s conduct as the Court, conscious of the urgency of the matter, on 4-6-2021 while issuing notice called upon counter affidavits to be filed within four weeks and listed the matter on 19-7-2021. We are informed that the Government did not filed the counter affidavits and took further four weeks' time to file the counter affidavits necessitating the adjournment till 5th October, 2021. And the special leave petition was filed on 17-7-2021. Thus on one hand, the Government does not deem it expedient to even file the counter affidavits while it has the ability to draw the special leave petitions and file the same before this Court. So much for the urgency expressed by the Government of India in the present proceedings - SLP dismissed.
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