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2019 (8) TMI 97

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..... Ms. Suhani Mathur, Advocates CORAM: O R D E R 1. The summons dated which have been assailed in the present petition were issued on 13th March 2018 on the basis of a letter dated 5th September 2017 written by the Joint Commissioner (Customs) at Sahar, Mumbai to the Additional Commissioner Customs (Preventive), New Delhi regarding realization of government dues owed by five concerns/firms of which .....

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..... ere are government dues owed by the Petitioner which admittedly is not the case. 4. The issue in Shabina Abraham v. Collector of Central Excise and Customs 2015 332 ELT 372 (SC) was whether a show-cause notice under the Central Excise and Salt Tax Act, 1944 ('CE Act') could be issued to the legal heirs of a sole proprietor after his death, against whom a show-cause notice had been issued raising .....

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..... udication at the time of his death. 7. The above facts make no difference to the position that there is no machinery provision in the Customs Act whereby the dues owed by a proprietary concern or a partnership firm can be sought to be recovered from the legal heirs of the proprietor/partner of such concern/firm. 8. In that view of the matter, the impugned summons dated 13th March 2018 issued to .....

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