Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 196 · Decided 5 October 1965
Sachidananda Benerji, Assistant Collector of Customs v. Sitaram Agarwala and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1965 INSC 196 · [1966] 2 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 192/1961
- Decided
- 5 October 1965
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, K.N. WANCHOO, J.C. SHAH, S.M. SIKRI, V. RAMASWAMI (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Customs Act
Headnote
Sea Customs Act (8 of 1878), s. 167(8!)-Liability of person other than importer-"Concerned in or dealing with goods", n1ea11i11g of. The !st respondent had gone to' the 2nd respondent after previous, arrangement with him, with a large sum of money to purchase to them lo be smuggled and lo have been imported into India against the restrictions impo~ed on the import of gold: The police inter­ vened, recovered the gold and arrested them. The gold was confiscated under s. 167 ( 8) of the Sea Customs Act',, 1878. The respondents were prosecuted for
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