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2016 (8) TMI 638 - HC - CustomsMovement of betel nuts - the goods were seized by the Customs authorities on the suspicion that they were liable to be confiscated - Held that:- Nothing is brought to show that the Customs authorities could not have seized the goods from wherever they were seized in Kolkata or that the institute whereat the goods were tested could not have been approached for such purpose. No law or any official document has been produced either in support of the petitioner’s contention that the seizure was illegal or in support of the petitioner’s assertion that the test-house cannot be approached by the Customs authorities for any purpose whatsoever. The additional ground, equally laughable and fallacious, urged on behalf of the petitioner is that there is a rivalry between South Indian betel nut growers and the betel nut growers in the North-East such that any report of North-East betel nut sought from a test-house run by the cooperative of South- Indian betel nut growers would only be to the chagrin of the North-East betel nut growers. For the petitioner’s exercise of this present frivolity, the petitioner will immediately pay costs assessed at ₹ 50,000/- to the Customs authorities, which will abide by the final outcome of the proceedings that may be instituted against the petitioner upon the matters covered by the show-cause notice being decided by the Department as expeditiously as possible. - Decided against the petitioners.
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