TMI Blog2023 (12) TMI 266X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, IGI AIRPORT T-3 DELHI, COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, IGI AIRPORT, NEW DELHI, UNION OF INDIA [ 2023 (8) TMI 1008 - DELHI HIGH COURT] had held that It is the FTP formulated in terms of Section 5 of the FTDR which makes the import of gold subject to RBI regulation. This stipulation thus clearly evidences the intent of the Union Government to confer RBI with the authority to formulate regulatory provisions in relation to the import of gold. Since this power stands bestowed upon the RBI by the Union Government and forms an integral part of the FTP itself, one need not look for or undertake an expedition to discern a power independently vested in the RBI to issue appropriate directives and circulars regulating the import of ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... he latter part of Section 2(33) clearly leads us to conclude that goods which have been imported in violation of a condition for import would also fall within its ambit. If Section 2(33) were envisaged to extend only to goods the import of which were explicitly proscribed alone, there would have been no occasion for the authors of the statute to have spoken of goods imported in compliance with import conditions falling outside the scope of prohibited goods . 145. Our conclusion is further fortified when we move on to Section 11 and which while principally dealing with the power to prohibit again speaks of an absolute prohibition or import being subject to conditions that may be prescribed. It is thus manifest that a prohibition could ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... justification to discern or discover an embargo erected either in terms of Section 11 of the Act or Section 3(2) of the FTDR. This more so since, for reasons aforenoted, we have already found that the power to prohibit as embodied in those two provisions itself envisages a notification or order which may stop short of a complete proscription and merely introduce a restriction or condition for import. xxxx xxxx xxxx 153. The submission addressed by the learned amicus does not commend acceptance when one bears in mind the admitted position that the stipulation with respect to the import of gold being subject to RBI regulatory control is a prescription which stands incorporated in and introduced by the FTP itself. It is the FTP for ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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