NEERAJ KUMAR SAINI  Vs JOINT SECRETARY, REVENUE & ANR.

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
% Decided on : 29th January, 2021
+ W.P.(C) 1137/2021
NEERAJ KUMAR SAINI ….. Petitioner
Through: Mr.Akshay Sapre, Adv. with
Mr.Abhijeet Swaroop, Adv.
Versus
JOINT SECRETARY, REVENUE & ANR. ….. Respondent s
Through: None.
CORAM:
HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE
HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE JYOTI SINGH
JUDGMENT
: D.N.PATEL, Chief Justice (Oral)
C.M.No. 3207 /2021 (exemption )
Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.
The application is disp osed of.
1. This writ petition has been preferred with the following prayers: – W.P.(C) No. 1137 /2021
“a) Quash the unauthorized auction dated 27.05.2019
undertaken by Respondent No.2, and all
proceedings consequent thereto;
b) Direct Respondent N o.1 to restore the wrongfully
seized and unauthorisedly auctioned gold and
preserve the same till the disposal of the same by
the Revision Application by Respondent No.1;
c) Direct Respondent N o.2 to restore an amount
equivalent to the market value of the goods along
with interest thereon from the date of the auction
till the date of restoration and maintain the said
amount in a deposit bearing interest;
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d) Direct Respondent No.1 to grant a reasonable
opportunity of hearing to the Petitioner and decide
the Petitioner’s p ending Revision Application
expeditiously and in a time bound manner;
e) Award costs as recoverable from Respondent No.2,
to be donated to a good cause, as the Lordships
deem fit ;”
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submit s that suffice it would be for
the d isposal of this writ petition, if a suitab le d irection is issued to the
Revisional Authority to decide the revision application preferred by the
Petitioner in accordance with law and within a time bound schedule. 3. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and in view of the limited
submission made by learned counsel for the petitioner, we direct respondent No.1 to decide the revision application preferred by the Petitioner on
19.11.2018 against order -in-appeal dated 7
th May, 2018 (Annexure P -14 to
the memo of th is writ petition) , in accordance with law, Rules, Regulations
and Government P olicies applicable to the facts of the case and on the basis
of the evidence on record, after giving adequate opportunity of being heard to
the concerned parties. The decision shall be ta ken by respondent No. 1 as
expeditiously as possible and practicable and preferably with in a period of 12
weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order .
4. With these observations writ petition is disposed of.

CHIEF JUSTICE

JYOTI SIN GH, J
J ANUARY 29, 2021
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