2024 (4) TMI 794

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..... For the Respondents : Mr. Karan Adik. P.C. 1. On the backdrop of earlier orders, we have heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. Mr. Engineer, learned counsel for the petitioner has brought to our notice a letter dated 19 March, 2024 addressed to the petitioner by the Superintendent (Adj.) Customs, Pune whereby the petitioner has been called upon to attend a personal hearing scheduled o....

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.... The barge thereafter broke and is lying abandoned at the sea bed near Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. In fact, the tug also drifted however the same was salvaged and later on it was permitted to sail under the orders of this Court. Mr. Engineer would submit that there ought not to be a semblance of doubt that the drifting of the vessel in the high seas and the vessel reaching the Indian shores in such ....

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....811 of 2007 in which the show cause notice issued to the owners of the tug MLC Marine Pvt. Ltd. which was challenged. A coordinate Bench of this Court by an order dated 27 October 2020 in the present proceedings observed that the adjudication of the show cause notice in question was subject to the result of the decision which would be rendered on such writ petition. It, however, appears that the s....