Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 223 · Decided 16 August 1988
Vijay Prakash D. Mehta & ANR. v. Collector of Customs (Preventive), Bombay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 223 · [1988] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 434
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1219/1987
- Decided
- 16 August 1988
- Bench
- SABYASACHI MUKHERJI, S. RANGANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Customs Act Section 130E(b), 129E, 129A
Headnote
c Customs Act, 1962: ss. 130E(b) & 129E-Statutory right of appeal-Neither an absolute right nor an ingredient of natural justice­ Can be circumscribed by the conditions in the grant-Held-Obligatory on appellants to deposit duty or penalty levied pending the appeal. Section 129A of the Where, however, the order appealed against relates to duty demanded in respect of goods which are not under the control of the cnstoms authorities or any penalty levied under the Act, s. l29E requires the aggrieved person to deposit with the proper officer D the duty demanded or the penalty
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