Only DGFT Empowered to Suspend & Cancel IEC Number

Siddharth Mandavia Vs Union of India and others (Bombay High Court) The issue under consideration is whether any official empowered to suspend and cancel Importer Exporter code (IEC) number? High Court states that, when a law requires a thing to be done in a particular manner, it has to be done in that particular manner and recourse to any other manner is necessarily forbidden. Suspension and cancellation of importer exporter code number can be done only under Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 by the Director General of Foreign Trade or by his authorized officer for the reas...