Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 42 · Decided 21 January 2014
Biswanath Bhattacharya v. Union of India & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 42 · [2014] 1 S.C.R. 885
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 772/2014
- Decided
- 21 January 2014
- Bench
- H.L. GOKHALE, JASTI CHELAMESWAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 20, 300A, 14, 31
Headnote
SMUGGLERS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE MANIPULATORS (FORFEITURE OF PROPERTY) ACT, A B 1976: c s. 6(1) - Notice under - Requirement of recording reasons in the notice -Plea of appellant that notice issued u/s. 6 was defective as it did not contain reasons which made competent authority believe that notice D acquired property - Held: Plea not sustainable - There is no express statutory requirement to communicate the reasons issuance of notice u/s. 6 of the Act - Secondly, the re_asons, though not initially supplied alongwith the notice were subsequently supplied thereby enabling the appellant
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