2005 (2) TMI 672

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....d in the baggage. The passenger Smt. Hari Ram Singh alias K. Kanniammal holder of a Singapore Passport and on that date she was proceeding for Security check after Immigration and Customs clearance to board a flight for a Singapore. She was intercepted by the officers and her baggage was searched. She in her statements, recorded immediately after the mahazar was completed, revealed that one Swami of Singapore had introduced her to a person name Babu who had requested her to take said foreign currencies bundles out of India for a remuneration of 5000 Singapore dollars and that such three bundles, containing Foreign Currencies which was recovered, were handed over to her on by Babu. Further inquiries were made and it was revealed that this pa....

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.... identified to be S.M. Mohammed Ghouse, was detected by the officers and produced before the passenger. She did not identify that person to be Babu who had given the seized currency. Further inquiries made revealed that the premises No. 6/3, Ramanathan Street, T. Nagar where let out to one S.M. Jahubar Sathik alias Babu, aged 32 years who had given his address as Proprietor, Nisha Jewellers, 146, NSC Bose Road, First Floor, Chennai-79 and his permanent address as 28-A, EASA Thandayal Street, Keelakarai, Raminad District; a photograph of this Babu, from the xerox copies of the certificate of registration of Nisha Jewellers was obtained. Shri Amudharajan was located and he responded to the summons and identified the photograph of Jahubar Sath....

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.... position of the premises where the persons bringing gold from Singapore were lodged and they were given sale proceeds of such gold by Babu. These premises were allotted to the passenger from Singapore, who was intercepted with the foreign currency, that passengers had stayed at these premises and admittedly received the currency bundles at these premises. (b) The movement of appellant now before us and the passenger on 9-4-97 in a taxi, from the premises hired by the appellant up to Chennai International Airport is corroborated. The money has been explained by the passenger to have been handed over by Babu for a consideration of 5000 Singapore dollars. Retractions subsequently made and the cross-examination result of the passenger before t....