Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 262 · Decided 26 March 2015
Regional Deputy Director v. Zavaray S. Poonawala & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 262 · [2015] 4 S.C.R. 381
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7130/2003
- Decided
- 26 March 2015
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, R.F. NARIMAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Customs Act Section 124; Wild Life Protection Act
Headnote
A B Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 - Schedule I - c Protection of prohibited species - Stuffed leopard - Respondent seeking permission to import into India a trophy of one stuffed leopard - Refusal of permission by CITES - However, High Court holding that the authorities which were required to to respondent and as such CITES had no locus to entertain the application or to reject it - Sustainability of - Held: Not sustainable - Conditions mentioned in the approval granted by the DGFT as well as Chief Wildlife Warden, were not met by respondent - In the absence E thereof it
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