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HC dismisses PIL on Tendulkar`s Ferrari duty waiver
New Delhi, Sept 03: The Delhi High Court today dismissed as withdrawn a PIL challenging the Centre`s decision to waive off Rs 1.13 crore import duty on a Ferrari car gifted to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar in view of another PIL pending on the matter in the court.
New Delhi, Sept 03: The Delhi High Court today dismissed as withdrawn a PIL challenging the Centre's decision to waive off Rs 1.13 crore import duty on a Ferrari car gifted to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar in view of another PIL pending on the matter in the court.
The PIL by advocate T K A Padmanabhan was "dismissed as
withdrawn" by a division bench of Chief Justice B C Patel and
Justice A K Sikri.
However, the court gave liberty to the petitioner to plead himself in the earlier PIL pending before it.
Raising questions over the government's decision to grant Rs 1.13 crore duty waiver to Tendulkar, the court had on august 13 taken suo motu cognizance of newspaper reports in the matter and issued notices to the batting maestro and the ministries of finance and sports.
However, on August 19, government sought to defend its action terming it a policy decision which had been "blown out of proportion".
The court had fixed September 23 as the next date of hearing as the notice was not served on Sachin.
Amicus Curiae Arjun Bhandari had submitted that it was not an issue of Tendulkar alone. The entire issue of duty exemption under the customs act had to be examined. "Let us go through the records and see who all have been given duty exemption in the last three years under Section 25(2) of the act," he said.
Bureau Report
However, the court gave liberty to the petitioner to plead himself in the earlier PIL pending before it.
Raising questions over the government's decision to grant Rs 1.13 crore duty waiver to Tendulkar, the court had on august 13 taken suo motu cognizance of newspaper reports in the matter and issued notices to the batting maestro and the ministries of finance and sports.
However, on August 19, government sought to defend its action terming it a policy decision which had been "blown out of proportion".
The court had fixed September 23 as the next date of hearing as the notice was not served on Sachin.
Amicus Curiae Arjun Bhandari had submitted that it was not an issue of Tendulkar alone. The entire issue of duty exemption under the customs act had to be examined. "Let us go through the records and see who all have been given duty exemption in the last three years under Section 25(2) of the act," he said.
Bureau Report