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Levy of penalty u/s 112(a) Though adjudicating authority has invoked the provisions of Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 without any empowerment to do so, and ostensibly to bring the appellant within the scope of Customs Act, 1962 in circumstances initiating proceedings even before bill of entry was filed, that law, intended to be invoked for prosecution as a consequence of holding property in ‘benami’ as well as for interdiction of such property, exists as an independent statute not amenable for concatenation with Customs Act, 1962 by any enabling provision. - AT
Levy of penalty u/s 112(a) Though adjudicating authority has invoked the provisions of Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 without any empowerment to do so, and ostensibly to bring the appellant within the scope of Customs Act, 1962 in circumstances initiating proceedings even before bill of entry was filed, that law, intended to be invoked for prosecution as a consequence of holding property in ‘benami’ as well as for interdiction of such property, exists as an independent statute not amenable for concatenation with Customs Act, 1962 by any enabling provision. - AT
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