1973 (11) TMI 44

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....shop is situated at Shohratgarh, a place 6 miles from the Nepalese border. According to the petitioner, Nepalese citizens come to his shop to purchase silver ornaments and they pay the petitioner in Nepalese silver coins. On 25th October, 1964 the Customs Authorities raided the petitioner's shop and searched it. They seized three silver bricks weighing 52.37 Kg. and some silver coins of Nepalese o....

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.... 2.The authorities below have uniformly found that the silver bricks as well as the coins were 'admitted' by the petitioner to be of Nepalese origin. The petitioner challenges this finding in regard to the silver bricks on the ground that it is based on no evidence. We have perused the statement given by the petitioner. In that statement he stated that he melted old silver ornaments at his shop....

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....an 40% in value. The Government Orders 57 and 58 of 1968 permitted coins with less than 40% silver content to be released. The petitioner's plea that he was covered by these orders and so the silver coins could not be confiscated was repelled by the Government of India in the following words :- "Regarding the two previous orders of 1968 quoted by the petitioners, Government find that these two ....