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2006 (12) TMI 146 - HC - Central ExciseWrit jurisdiction - Jurisdiction of Court entertaining this appeal - whether suits of the Settlement Commission was within the jurisdiction of this Court? - HELD THAT:- We may observe that a significant part of the cause of action cannot be said to arise within the territorial jurisdiction of this Court merely because the order under challenge has been passed by a Tribunal located within its territorial jurisdiction, when the events leading to the filing of the proceedings before such Tribunal, and the parties to such proceedings, are outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Court. This is the situation in the present case. Also, the petitioners here are not without remedy on account of this Court declining to entertain their petitions. We may mention that we have been adopting this approach in certain other matters including Raj Leather Cloth Industries Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India [2006 (11) TMI 659 - DELHI HIGH COURT] where again the challenge was to an order of the Settlement Commission by a party located in Haryana. We are not inclined to adopt a different approach here. We do not agree with the submissions of the learned senior counsel for the petitioners that the facts are any different, warranting a departure from the above approach. Thus, we decline to entertain these writ petitions. However, the dismissal of the writ petitions is without prejudice to the rights of the petitioners to approach the appropriate Court to seek the relief sought for in these writ petitions. The writ petitions and applications are accordingly dismissed.
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