Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 244 · Decided 12 July 1994
Gajanan Visheshwar Birjur v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 244 · [1994] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 466
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 598/1979
- Decided
- 12 July 1994
- Bench
- S.C. AGRAWAL, B.P. JEEVAN REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32; Customs Act Section 111(d)
Headnote
Customs Act, 1962:-Sectoin Ill (d)-Confiscation of books-Books imported are writings, speeches and works of Mao, besides works of Man:, Engels and Lenin-Confiscation orders passed holding that import of said C books in violation of Notification No. 77 dated 22nd September, 1956-0rders devoid of particular clause even in show cause notices-Orders of con­ fiscation-Held : Not lnvali~'Constitution of India, 1950-·Arts 19(1)(c) and 19(1)(g). D E F G The petitioner, a distributor and publisher of Marxist literature, imported books comparising mainly the writing of Mao. Books were
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