Supreme Court Quashes Confiscation of Imported Silver Dollars Under Land Customs Act and Other Laws Holding Seizure and Finding of Offences Unjustified. Verdict Rests on Interpretation of Section 5(3) Land Customs Act, 1924, and Absence of Any Evidence of Smuggling or Illegal Import.
28 Oct 1968The appellant, a trading company, imported 1,65,000 Chinese silver dollars from Tibet into India via Sikkim State under two Reserve Bank import licenc...




