{"id":18431,"date":"1983-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1983-04-13T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-director-of-telegraphs-vs-collector-of-customs-on-14-april-1983"},"modified":"2016-11-10T00:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:11:29","slug":"the-director-of-telegraphs-vs-collector-of-customs-on-14-april-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-director-of-telegraphs-vs-collector-of-customs-on-14-april-1983","title":{"rendered":"The Director Of Telegraphs, &#8230; vs Collector Of Customs on 14 April, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal &#8211; Delhi<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The Director Of Telegraphs, &#8230; vs Collector Of Customs on 14 April, 1983<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1983 ECR 1265 Tri Delhi<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: B Gujral, Vice-, V R Devi, K Rekhi<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>1. The case was heard on 14-4-1983. The appellants seek reassessment of Flexwell Waveguides and their accessories, which were imported together in one consignment and which are component parts of microwave equipments for transmission and reception of telephonic conversation, under item 73(13) of the erstwhile Indian Customs Tariff read with exemption notification No. 147\/58-Cus. Their claim was rejected at the lower levels as unsubstantiated. During the hearing before us, they produced a catalogue of the goods imported and explained the nature of their claim. The Department&#8217;s representative wanted time to go through the catalogue. We went through the relevant portion of the catalogue, which was a short one and carefully considered the appellants&#8217; submissions. We hold that the subject goods were entitled to be assessed at the lower rate under item 73(13) ICT read with exemption notification No. 147\/58-Cus and accordingly we allow, this appeal with consequential relief to the appellants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal &#8211; Delhi The Director Of Telegraphs, &#8230; vs Collector Of Customs on 14 April, 1983 Equivalent citations: 1983 ECR 1265 Tri Delhi Bench: B Gujral, Vice-, V R Devi, K Rekhi ORDER 1. The case was heard on 14-4-1983. The appellants seek reassessment of Flexwell Waveguides and their accessories, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customs-excise-and-gold-tribunal-delhi","category-tribunal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Director Of Telegraphs, ... vs Collector Of Customs on 14 April, 1983 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-director-of-telegraphs-vs-collector-of-customs-on-14-april-1983\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Director Of Telegraphs, ... vs Collector Of Customs on 14 April, 1983 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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