Bombay High Court orders refund after 23 year delayed proceedings

Sushitex Exports (India) Ltd. & Ors. Vs Union of India & Anr. (Bombay High Court) 1. The order was passed on a plea by a company seeking quashing of a show cause notice which had not been adjudicated for 23 years and return of ₹2 crore which had been deposited by it under protest during investigation. 2. The Court added that “it would amount to an arbitrary exercise of power if proceedings initiated in 1997 are not taken to their logical conclusion for over two decades and then a prayer is made for its early conclusion, no sooner than the matter enters the portals of this Court”....