The Supreme Court has dismissed a civil appeal challenging a Rajasthan High Court order which declined to entertain a writ petition filed by a litigant who failed to pursue the statutory alternative remedy of appeal under the Customs Act, 1962, within the prescribed limitation period.

The Division Bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Aravind Kumar held that when a specific statutory forum is available—particularly when that forum is the High Court itself in a different jurisdiction—writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution should not be exercised to allow the statutory machinery to be bypassed.

Brief Summary

The central legal issue before the Court was whether the High Court was justified in refusing to entertain a writ petition seeking a writ of certi

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