https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189698 Section 38 of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 permits seizure of any document or thing relevant to an investigation or proceeding where the authorised officer has reason to believe it is useful for that purpose. On that footing, a passport may be treated as relevant if it can show foreign nationality, residence in India, or entry into India on a foreign passport, because those facts may bear on alleged contravention of section 29(1)(a). The text also raises the separate concern that seizure of a passport should not continue indefinitely and that safeguards are needed to avoid unreasonable deprivation, but no further operative direction is available in the supplied extract. en-us Fri, 29 Aug 1986 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:05:18 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189698 Section 38 of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 permits seizure of any document or thing relevant to an investigation or proceeding where the authorised officer has reason to believe it is useful for that purpose. On that footing, a passport may be treated as relevant if it can show foreign nationality, residence in India, or entry into India on a foreign passport, because those facts may bear on alleged contravention of section 29(1)(a). The text also raises the separate concern that seizure of a passport should not continue indefinitely and that safeguards are needed to avoid unreasonable deprivation, but no further operative direction is available in the supplied extract. Case-Laws FEMA Fri, 29 Aug 1986 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189698