2018 (1) TMI 954

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....,Shubham Agrawal For The Respondent : C.S.C.,Krishna Agarawal ORDER A consignment of betel nuts was detained/seized by the Commercial Tax Authorities sometime in February, 2017. The transporter, Vijay Logistic, Jakaria Street, Kolkata took the matter to the High Court by means of Sales/Trade Tax Revision No.88 of 2017. The revision was admitted and an interim mandamus was issued to the....

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....Betel nuts are not the notified goods under Section 11A(d) of the Customs Act. Therefore, ex-facie it appears that the Custom Department have no locus to detain or seize the said goods on any pretext. In view of the above, the counsel for the Custom Department was directed to obtain instructions and to produce any order under which the above consignment was directed to be seized or confiscated ....

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....of the said goods. Sri Krishna Agarawal, learned counsel for the respondent nos.1 to 4 has filed an application alongwith the affidavit of Shashi Shekhar, Assistant Commissioner in the office of the Custom Department (Preventive), Lucknow with the prayer to clarify the order dated 30.5.2017 passed by this Court. We have asked Sri Krishna Agarawal to read the order dated 30.5.2017 passed by t....