2003 (11) TMI 415

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....hri Uma Shanker, SDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : Jyoti Balasundaram, Member (J)]. -  The brief facts of the case are that on the basis of specific information received from the officers of Narcotic Cell, Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate, Mumbai, detained two containers, which arrived from Dubai and Singapore and were consigned to M/s. Royal Sales Corporation, Nagdevi, Mumbai. ....

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....overed or seized therefrom. The appellant's statement was recorded on 31-3-1997 wherein he denied his involvement in the seizure. The department conducted further investigation which indicated that Shri Satish Rawal, Proprietor of M/s. Royal Sales Corporation had attempted to smuggle the Tetracycline Hydrochloride a restricted item, and ball bearings and that the appellant and others were also inv....

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....rking for one person by named Mohammed Ali alias M.D., that the consignments were smuggled into India by Paresh on behalf of Mohammed Ali, that he had never met Mohammed Ali nor had his address or telephone number and that he came to know his name during conversation with Shri Paresh. The evidence of Shri Mahesh Desai in connection with the appellant is hearsay evidence. There is nothing to direct....