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Issues: Whether the confiscation of industrial tyres under clause (d) of Section 111 of the Customs Act for want of an import licence was sustainable, and whether the tyres could be treated as freely importable on the basis that they were for forklift trucks or that similar goods had earlier been cleared.
Analysis: The absence of proof that the goods had been cleared elsewhere did not establish that they were freely importable without a licence. The availability of the tyres in India was held to be irrelevant to the question of licence requirement. Forklift trucks were not treated as falling in the same category as buses and lorries, since the latter are used for transport of goods over roads while forklift trucks are used within factories for movement of goods. The plea for liberal interpretation of the import policy was rejected on these facts.
Conclusion: The confiscation, redemption fine, and penalty were upheld, and the appeal failed.
Final Conclusion: The challenge to the customs order did not succeed, and the adjudication in favour of confiscation and penalty remained undisturbed.
Ratio Decidendi: Goods requiring a licence cannot be treated as freely importable merely because they are used for a particular industrial purpose or because similar goods were allegedly cleared earlier; the decisive test is whether the import policy permits import without a licence.
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