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Retention of seized property survives where recorded reasons support proceeds of crime, while stayed investigation periods are excluded from limitatio...
Provisional release of goods - API supari - Even if customs authorities felt obliged with, or without, justification or authority, to protect domestic consumers of arecanut/supari, the option of return to sender should have been permitted in circumstances of denial of recourse to section 110A of Customs Act, 1962 on grounds other than that which legitimized seizure. Therefore, it is only equitable that the prayer for issue of ‘detention certificate’ for enabling waiver of demurrage is allowed. - AT
Provisional release of goods - API supari - Even if customs authorities felt obliged with, or without, justification or authority, to protect domestic consumers of arecanut/supari, the option of return to sender should have been permitted in circumstances of denial of recourse to section 110A of Customs Act, 1962 on grounds other than that which legitimized seizure. Therefore, it is only equitable that the prayer for issue of ‘detention certificate’ for enabling waiver of demurrage is allowed. - AT
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