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TMI Blog2025 (3) TMI 746X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... , 1962 the Customs Act and a penalty of Rs. 6.00 lakhs under section 114AA of the Customs Act. 2. The Office has reported that notice intimating the date on which the appeal would be heard that was sent to the appellant and also to the learned counsel appearing for the appellant on 05.07.2022 was served upon the learned counsel for the appellant on 06.07.2022. Case has been called out, but no one has appeared on behalf of the appellant. The order sheet also reveals that the learned counsel for the appellant had appeared before the Tribunal on 30.05.2023, on which date the matter was adjourned because the issue involved related to the competence of the officer issuing the show cause notice, which issue was pending consideration before the S ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... /s Hughes Communications India Ltd. and M/s Hughes Network Systems India Ltd., Gurgaon, Haryana, at the time of Import of seized apparatus for wireless telegraph, classified under CTH 8525 60 92 had produced WPC licences purported to have been issued by DoT. However, investigations conducted by DRI reveal that the said WPC licences were "forged". In view of the above I find that the apparatus/equipment classified under CTH 8525 60 92 as mentioned in the Annexure "A" to the Impugned Show Cause Notice, which were seized vide Panchnama dated 07.03.2012 were imported, for which they had produced forged WPC Import licences. In effect these equipments / apparatus were imported without valid WPC Import licences in blatant contravention of the p ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... st /directions of Shri Ashok Gupta, Chairman and Sanjay Sachdeva, CEO of M/s ASL. Shri Sanjay Sachdeva and Shri Jaspal Singh Chaudhary in their respective statements tendered under Section 108 of the Customs Act, 1962 had admitted that such forged WPC Import licences were signed by Shri Jaspal Singh Chaudhary on the behest /directions of Shri Ashok Gupta and Shri Sanjay Sachdeva. The examination of the laptop used by Sh. Jaspal Singh Chaudhary and Ms Anuradha Diwan also resulted in retrieval of documents which contained the WPC Import licences purported to be issued by DoT. Sh. Sanjay Sachdeva, was looking after the day-to-day affairs of the noticee no.3 and two rubber stamps were also recovered from his cabin which were used for forging th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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