Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 190 · Decided 29 August 1975
Balumal Jamnadas Batra v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 190 · [1976] 1 S.C.R. 539
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 74/1971
- Decided
- 29 August 1975
- Bench
- M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, P.N. BHAGWATI, R.S. SARKARIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Customs Act Section 123(1), 135(b)(ii)
Headnote
539 Custo1ns Act, 1962, Section 123, sub-sections (l) and (2)-Seizure of smug­ gled goods prior to rtotification under sub-section (2)-Presurnption under sub­ sectj_on ( 1 ), if could be applied subsequent td; notification to ihe goods seized. Section 123(1) of the Customs Act, 1962, goods to which this section applies are seized under this Act in the reasonable belief that they are smuggled goods, the burden of proving that they are not sn1uggled goods shall be on the person from whos-e possession the goods were seized. On 21-4-1967, Police Officers of the Anti-Corruption
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