2002 (1) TMI 907

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....n of pre-deposit of penalty of Rs. 20,000/-, I take up the appeal itself inasmuch as the issue lies in a narrow compass. 2. As per the facts on records, the Customs Officers intercepted a truck loaded with foreign origin silk yarn. The statement of the driver was recorded wherein he deposed that one Shri Raghunath Prasad Raunihar, the appellant herein, contacted him for transportation of the....

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.... freight charges for transportation of the goods to Varanasi. Apart from the said statement of the driver, there is no other evidence on record. As far as the statement of the driver is concerned, I find that the adjudicating authority has dis-believed the same in respect of owner of the truck inasmuch as he observed that the name of Shri Ramesh Singh was declared by the driver as owner only to sh....