2016 (2) TMI 53

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.... For the Respondent : Shri Arijit Chakraborty, Advocate ORDER Per Shri H.K.Thakur This appeal has been filed by the Revenue against OIA No. 12/SLG/2012 dt 23/1/2012 passed by Commissioner (Appeals-IV) Kolkata, under which first appellate authority has set aside the penalty / confiscation and directed to release the goods / sale proceeds to the appellant. 2. Sh. S. Nath AC (AR) appear....

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....djudication therefore, first appellate authority has wrongly allowed the release of goods/sale proceeds to the appellant. (iv) That goods of Indian origin were used for concealing smuggled goods & were correctly confiscated under Sec 119 of the customs Act 1962. It was thus argued by the Learned AR that OIO dt 5/5/2011 passed by the Adjudicating authority should be restored. 3. Sh. Ari....

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.... custodian of the goods during transportation. That some parties also claimed the seized goods which was not accepted by the adjudicating authority. 4. Heard both sides & perused the case records. It is observed from the inventory list dt 23/8/2010 prepared by the Revenue & certified by Add chief judicial Magistrate, Islampur that only goods mentioned at serial No. 3,4,& 5 (ie calculators of fo....

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....d into India, Except for the goods mentioned at Sr No. 3,4,&5 (Calculators) all other goods of foreign origin or believed to be of foreign origin are not liable to confiscation as correctly held by the first appellate authority. Under the existing factual matrix it can not be upheld that the goods of Indian origin were used for concealing contrabed goods and are not considered as liable to confisc....