2025 (9) TMI 1420

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.... - "a) This Hon'ble Court be pleased to issue a writ of Mandamus or a writ in the nature of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, ordering and directing the Respondents themselves, its officers, subordinates, servants, and agents to forthwith provide the records of seized gold jewellery and return gold equal to 212 grams of gold of which was disposed by the Respondent No. 4 to enable the Petitioners to re-deem the impugned gold in terms of the order dated 15.05.2022, passed by the Revisionary Authority, Government of India. b) in the alternative to the Prayer Clause (a) above, this Hon'ble Court be pleased to issue a writ of Mandamus or a writ in the nature of Mandamus or any other appropriate....

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....been sold in 2020. 6. On 20 June 2023, the Petitioner wrote to the customs authority about his wanting to redeem the gold and sought their guidance because the gold had already been sold in 2020. Since there was no response from the customs authority, the Petitioner applied for a "refund" by his application of 20 February 2024. This application was promptly rejected on the grounds that the gold was already sold and further, because the Petitioner had allegedly not exercised his option of redemption within 120 days of the revisional authority's order. 7. The contention that the Petitioner did not apply within the prescribed period is clearly untenable apart from being unfair. By his communication dated 20 June 2023, which was made well....