Supreme Court of India

Rajinder Arora v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [2006] 3 S.C.R. 9
Bench S.B. Sinha and P.K. Balasubramanyan JJ.
Decided 10 March 2006

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We are of the opinion that grounds (iii) and (iv) of the decision of this Court in Alka Subhash Gadia C (supra) are attracted in the instant case.

Judgment, page 10

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Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974-Detention order-Interference with. at pre-execution stage-Scope of-Utilization of unlawful import-Raid conducted, detention order passed after 10 months and no explanation for the delay-Status report not taken into consideration by Customs Authorities-No prosecution lodged by Statutory Authorities against the person concerned, also non-issuance of show cause notice-Thus, detention order was passed for a wrong purpose and was on vague, extraneous and irrelevant grounds, as such not sustainable and set

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