Seizure of goods - Authority for initiating proceeding against...

Seizure of goods - Authority for initiating proceeding against the Petitioner - Power of DRI - Merely because one of the Officers in the search and seizure proceeding belongs to the Customs Department does not mean that the proceeding has been drawn by the Customs Department. All the proceedings in the instant case have been from the office of the DRI. It was never the case of the Respondents that the proceeding not being from the Department of DRI or for that matter the proceedings being drawn by the Customs Department - the plea and the defence taken by learned Assistant Solicitor General or for that matter the Department of DRI are not sustainable nor do it have any substantial force. - HC