The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Union government to decide quickly on its notification prohibiting export of onions and said, “It will be in the interest of justice if export of pending consignments of onion with valid shipping bills are allowed.”
A Division Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Abhay Ahuja was hearing a petition filed by Horticulture Produce Exporters Association and others through advocate Sujay Kantawalla.
They have contended that though their bills were prior to issuance of notification dated September 14, 2020 which prohibited export of onions, they were not being permitted to export.
The petition stated, “The containers were illegally kept on hold by the customs authorities, as they were illegally acting upon some information that they had received at around 10 a.m. purportedly informing them some policy changes regarding onion exports were to…