Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1130 · Decided 22 November 2017
Gunwantlal Godawat v. Union of India & Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1130 · [2017] 14 S.C.R. 369
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4711/2011
- Decided
- 22 November 2017
- Bench
- JASTI CHELAMESWAR, S. ABDUL NAZEER (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 352
Headnote
Defence of India Rules. 1962 - Part XIIA - rr.126-I.126L(2). A B l 26M - Confiscation of gold -Law applicable to pending adjudgment proceedings in respect of such confiscation- In 1965, C residential premises of appellant:~ father was searched wherein 240kgs gold was found and seized under 1962 by the 1968 Ordinance which in turn was repealed by Gold Control Act of 1968- However. u/s.116(2) of the Act, by way of fiction, anything done under the 1968 Ordinance or Part XII of the 1962 Ru!es, was deemed to have been done under the said Act- D Collector of Central Excise and Customs
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