CHILLIES EXPORTERS ASSOCIATION INDIA vs DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF FOREIGN TRADE & ANR.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Judgment reserved on: 04.11.2025 % Judgment delivered on: 10.12.2025 + W.P.(C) 9463/2024 CHILLIES EXPORTERS ASSOCIATION INDIA .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Manish Mishra, Adv. with Ms.Shikha Parmar and Mr. Shubh Dixit, Advs. versus DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF FOREIGN TRADE & ANR. .....Respondent Through: Mr.Ripudaman Bhardwaj, CGSC withMr. Amit Kumar Rana, Adv. for UOI. CORAM: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TUSHAR RAO GEDELA JUDGMENT DEVENDRA KUMAR UPADHYAYA, C.J. -: CHALLENGE :- 1. Proceedings of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India by an association of chillies exporters have been instituted challenging an order dated 19.03.2024 passed by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Department of Commerce, Government of India (hereinafter referred to as ‘DGFT’) in compliance of an order dated 28.11.2023 passed by this Court in W.P. (C) 15279/2023, which too was filed by the W.P.(C) 9463/2024 Page 1 of 22 Signature Not Verified Digiltally Signed By:SREERAM L Signing Date:10.12.2025 17:02:43 petitioner/association. By the said order dated 28.11.2023, this Court had directed the said writ petition to be treated as a representation and to be decided by the competent authority in the office of the DGFT by way of a reasoned order. The petitioner/association has also prayed for issuing an appropriate writ declaring the notification dated 25.03.2022, issued by the Government of India, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce, whereby a Scheme titled “Revised Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for Specified Agricultural Products” vide notification dated 09.09.2021 was foreclosed, and accordingly the notification dated 09.09.2021 was withdrawn, as ultra vires. Prayer is, thus, to set asi