Supreme Court of India

Union of India v. Padam Narain Aggarwal Etc

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Reported as [2008] 14 S.C.R. 179

Bench C.K. Thakker and D.K. Jain JJ.

Decided 3 October 2008

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the appeal filed by the Union of India is partly allowed and the directions issued and condi::., G . tions imposed by the High Court on the Custom AuthoriUes are hereby set aside.

Judgment, page 27

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 438 Anticipatory bail - Grant of by Courts of Law - Explained - Departmental proceedings by Customs Authorities - c Summons issued to accused to participate in investigation - Non-cooperation by the accused - Initiation of criminal proceedings at the instance of Customs Authorities - Accused seeking anticipatory bail - High Court holding the application as pre-mature anti ordering the accused to appear before the ( Authority- However, it directed the Customs Authorities not to --< arrest the accused without ten days prior notice if accused found to have

Authorities it was built on

1980 Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia Etc. v. State of Punjab cited by 46
1968 Romesh Chandra Mehta v. State of West Bengal cited by 9
2000 The Assistant Collector of Central Excise, Rajamundry v. Duncan Agro Industries Ltd. and Ors. cited by 5

Where later benches applied it

2025 Radhika Agarwal v. Union of India and Others relied on
2024 Arvind Kejriwal v. Directorate of Enforcement relied on
2023 The State of Gujarat Etc. v. Choodamani Parmeshwaran Iyer & Anr. Etc. relied on
2023 Commissioner of Customs (imports), Mumbai v. M/s Ganpati Overseas through its Proprietor Shri Yashpal Sharma & Anr. referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2020 Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu referred to
2013 Ranjit Singh v. State of M.P. and Others referred to
2012 Rashmi Rekha Thatoi & Anr. v. State of Orissa & Ors. referred to
2011 Om Prakash & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 6 referred to

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