Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 154 · Decided 10 March 2006
Rajinder Arora v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 154 · [2006] 3 S.C.R. 9
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 311/2006
- Decided
- 10 March 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, P.K. BALASUBRAMANYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Customs Act Section 108
Headnote
B Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974-Detention order-Interference with. at pre-execution stage-Scope of-Utilization of unlawful import-Raid conducted, detention C order passed after 10 months and no explanation for the delay-Status report not taken the person concerned, also non-issuance of show cause notice-Thus, detention order was passed for a wrong purpose and was on vague, extraneous and irrelevant grounds, as such not sustainable and set aside-Foreign Trade Development and Regulation Act, 1994. D It is alleged that the appellant was
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