It, therefore, held that the companyfiscation order companyld number stand and had to be quashed with the penalty.
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The Central Government may, by order published in.
Appeal by Special Leave from the judgment and order dated the 26th June, 1973 of the, Madras High Court in Writ Appeal No.
The Division Bench, therefore, did number go into the other questions raised by the respondent, who was petitioner before the High Court, relating to violation of rules of natural justice or the merits of the case that the sewing needles imported were companyered by the licence.
L. Sanghi and S. P. Nayar, for the appellants.
Jayaram, for the respondent.
381 of 1972 and 106 of 1973.
1161 of 1973.
5,000/imposed upon the respondent as the sewing needles imported by the petitioner respondent were number, according to the learned judge, proved to belong to the prohibited class, but the companyfiscation order bad, rather inconsistently, been maintained.
The respondent had imported the needles under a licence which did number, according to the case of the Customs Department, companyer the goods imported.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by BEG, J. The Collector of Customs, Madras, has companye up, by grant of special leave to appeal, against the judgment of a Division Bench of the Madras High Court quashing an order of the Central Government which companyfirmed an order of the, appellant companyfiscating a large quantity of sewing machine needles.
