2008 (3) TMI 149

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..... he Respondent. [Order per: M.V. Ravindran, Member (J)]. - This stay application is directed against imposition of penalty of Rs. 1 lakh on the applicant under the provisions of 112A of the Customs Act, 1962. 2. After hearing both sides for sometime on the stay application, we find that the issue involved in this case being in a narrow compass, the final appeal can be decided at this stage. Hence .....

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..... were no efforts to do so and the adjudicating authority proceeded in the matter, by affixing a personal hearing notice on the notice board of the Air Cargo complex. To our mind the adjudicating authority could have granted another chance to the appellant to put forth his case. We find that there is no reply filed by the appellant as he was in detention in the Nashik Central jail. As such we are of .....

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