1997 (11) TMI 554

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....j/1/AD/RK/G/97/3609, dated 29-4-1997 in show-cause notice No. T-4/9-G/96 for an offence of contravention of sections 8(1) and (2), read with section 64(2) of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973, ('the Act'). 2. In brief it is the case of Enforcement Directorate that on 22-12-1995, while conducting a search at the shop premises of Al-Siddiqi, New Market, Margao - Goa, allegedly the appella....

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....ant that Sh. Rajinder Kumar, Assistant Director, Enforcement, decided the matter of his own without going through the reply properly and as such, the appellant is prejudiced by the said order. Hence, this appeal. The main grounds of the appeal of the appellant are : (i) That the order is against the principle of natural justice and good conscience. (ii) Assistant Director, as sta....

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....is purchasing the same. (v) The Assistant Director has failed in his duties to find out the truth, whether the father of the appellant was working abroad in a hotel and the currency could belong to his father. While passing the order, the learned Assistant Director has accepted one truth that his father was working in a foreign country but did not accept the other part that the currency w....

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....hat he had in his possession the above currency legally. 8. He has filed no documentary proof to show that he had in his possession the foreign currency from his father. He has further failed to prove that his father was legally entitled to receive the foreign currency. 9. In this matter the principle of natural justice and good conscience is not violated because the appellant was given ampl....