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2002 (11) TMI 681 - SC - Companies LawWhether there can be detention on a solitary instance would depend on the facts and circumstances of each case, on the magnitude of the case and other attendant circumstances? Held that:- Petition dismissed. Considering the number of trips he had made out of the country, the volume of goods seized now and the prima facie misdeclaration of value, an inference can be drawn that the detenu was a part of bigger network in bringing the goods for commercial distribution inside the country by avoiding the payment of duty. In this background, absence of passport will not be a handicap to the detenu for his activities in the present case in which the fact situation is different from the one available in Rajesh Gulati’s case. Nor can we confine the meaning of the word ‘smuggling’ only to going out of country and coming back with goods which are contraband or to evade duty but may encourage such activities as well by dealing in such goods
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