1998 (8) TMI 336

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....rder]. - The question for consideration in this appeal is whether the vessel "Gunatit" is liable to confiscation under sub-section (2) of Section 115 of the Act. The vessel was seized by the Customs Department at Mumbai on information from the Goa Customs that it had been used in smuggling of silver at Goa in January, 1990. In the order impugned in the appeal, the Collector (Appeals) has set as....

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....ot liable for confiscation for another reason. That is that the vessel cannot have shown to have been used in the carriage of smuggled goods. The entire evidence that is relied upon in the notice is the statement of Ramji Gopal Tindel. In this statement, he says that "with the help of the trawler which was arranged by Ganpat (F.T. "Gunati") I managed to bring contraband silver from Dubai and lande....