Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 707 · Decided 23 October 1997
Sun Export Corporation and ANR. v. Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 707 · [1997] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 682
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 655/1994
- Decided
- 23 October 1997
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, K. VENKATASWAMI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Customs Act Section 3(2), 125
Headnote
' Bombay Port Trust Act 1879 : S.3(5) /Major Port Trusts Act 1963 : S.2(0)-/mporter acting as agent of the consignee and responsible for custody C of goods-Held, it was owner of the goods in question and liable to pay charges to the Port Trust. D · Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 : S.63-Goods towards Port Trust dues. Appellant No. I, a sole proprietary concern of appellant No. 2, imported certain consignment in the years 1973-74, against two import licences held by an engineering firm. The said firm had obtained from the Joint Controller of Imports and Exports two letters of
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