2024 (12) TMI 623

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....dents Through: Mr. Atul Tripathi, SSC, CBIC with Mr. V.K. Attri, Advocates and Mr. Nitin Raj, Superintendent, Custom. JUDGMENT (ORAL) 1. By virtue of a common order dated 08.02.2024 passed by learned Division Bench of this Court in WP(C) 12295/2023 and WP(C) 14464/2023, the respondents were directed to release the articles in question i.e. gold chains to the concerned petitioners on their de....

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.... Sh. Nitin Raj, Superintendent, Office of Commissioner of Customs, General, New Custom House, has joined the proceedings through video conferencing. 6. This Court has gone through the specific directions contained in the above said order dated 08.02.2024. Fact remains that since the detention of the goods in question was not in consonance with the legal provisions, the Custom Department cannot ....

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....the gold chains in question to the respective petitioners within one week from today without insisting for payment of any ground rent/warehouse charges. However, the respondents would be at liberty to take any permissible separate action to recover such ground rent or warehouse charges from the petitioners in accordance with law. 11. Let the chains, accordingly, be released within one week from....