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Issues: Whether a vessel confiscated under the Customs Act, 1962 and sold by the Customs authorities in auction could be treated as imported goods so as to require the purchaser to file a bill of entry under Section 46 of the Customs Act, 1962 and pay customs duty.
Analysis: The vessel had been confiscated under Section 126 of the Customs Act, 1962, whereupon it vested in the Central Government and was thereafter sold as Government property within India. Import under the Act contemplates bringing goods into India from outside India, imported goods are goods so brought in, and the obligation to file a bill of entry under Section 46 attaches to an importer. Since the petitioners did not import the vessel but purchased it in auction from the Customs authorities after confiscation, they were not importers and the vessel did not answer the description of imported goods. The departmental reliance on customs duty under Chapter 8908 and on the cited notification was therefore misplaced, and the contractual condition in the tender could not override the statute.
Conclusion: The petitioners were not required to follow the procedure under Section 46 of the Customs Act, 1962 or pay customs duty on the auction-purchased confiscated vessel; the impugned communication was unsustainable.
Ratio Decidendi: Goods confiscated under the Customs Act vest in the Central Government, and a purchaser from the Government in auction is not an importer in respect of those goods; therefore the bill-of-entry requirement under Section 46 does not apply.
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