(1) THE petitioner seeks special leave to appeal to this court from the order dated 7/04/1992 made by the High court of Delhi in C.R. No. 2032 of 1992 and connected cases disposing of a batch of writ petitions. This special leave petition is confined to the order insofar as it relates to C.R. No. 2032 of 1992.

(2) RESPONDENTS 1 and 2 are the main contesting parties and are duly served. But, they have chosen to remain unrepresented. The question raised before the High court in the writ petition, as rightly observed by the High court, was concluded by the pronouncement of this court.

(3) THE correctness of the dismissal of the writ petition is not assailed by the petitioners. Their grievance is against that part of the order by which the High court directed the petitioner to pay interest on the amount of duty for the period during which the stay granted by the High court was in operation. The occasion for imposing a liability for interest arose this way: In the writ petition, the petitioners had sought before and were granted by the court an interim order staying the recovery of the disputed duty, upon terms as to security by way of execution of bonds and furnis