2022 (11) TMI 441

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....ce Anita Sumanth For the Petitioner : Mr.M.Abdul Nazeer For the Respondents : Mr.V.Sundareswaran, Senior Panel Counsel ORDER The petitioner had been intercepted on her arrival in the Chennai International Airport on 06.01.2016, on the suspicion that she was smuggling gold. The petitioner is a resident of Dubai for the last 23 years. 2. Upon inspection of her person, the authorities ....

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.... and by order dated 20.02.2017 her appeal was dismissed. The petitioner's attempt to state that the statement recorded from her, on the basis of which she has been searched and the gold found, had been recorded under pressure or duress was rejected as the first Appellate Authority was of the view that entirety of the statement had been supported by the recovery of the gold from her person. The....

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....der Section 114AA, was set aside. 7. No justification is made out for intervention in the impugned order and, in fact, learned counsel for the petitioner, fairly, restricts his plea to leniency. In light of the fact that the petitioner has, admittedly, brought in gold without either a declaration or a permit, there is no avenue to intervene in the impugned order, particularly seeing as the orde....