Court Rules Customs Act Inapplicable for Unsafe Betel Nuts; Seizure Memo Quashed Over Import of Raw Betel Nuts.

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....Import of prohibited goods - Betel nuts - The goods in question are yet raw, as an unfinished product, meant to be transported to another State for it to be processed and packaged, whereafter, only, eventually sold in an open market and if the goods are actually unsafe food then it is not the provision of the Customs Act which can be invoked, for not falling within its purview - seizure memo quahsed.....