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Issues: Whether the customs authorities could disregard the FSSAI test reports and continue to detain the imported roasted areca nuts, and whether the seizure memo and provisional release conditions requiring a bank guarantee and a no-use bond were legally sustainable.
Analysis: The imported goods had been examined by the authorised officers and tested by the FSSAI laboratory, which issued NOCs confirming conformity with the applicable standards. The Court held that once a specialised statutory authority charged with food safety had certified the goods as fit for human consumption, there was no satisfactory basis for the customs authorities to insist on re-testing or to treat the consignments as not being roasted areca nuts merely on the basis of the later CRCL report. The Court also found that the seizure and the insistence on a bank guarantee of Rs. 10,00,000/- and a no-use bond lacked justification in the facts, particularly when the FSSAI reports were available and the goods were found to be roasted areca nuts. The Court further noted that the goods could be released on payment of duty, with post-clearance safeguards limited to removal of damaged goods under FSSAI supervision before domestic sale.
Conclusion: The challenge succeeded. The seizure memo and the condition insisting on a bank guarantee were quashed, and the goods were directed to be released without insisting on a security deposit or no-use undertaking, subject to the specified FSSAI-supervised post-clearance certification process.
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