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The clear mandate of Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565425\">110-A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act, 1962<\/a> states that goods could be permitted to be released only in favour of an <b>owner<\/b> and the respondent failed to establish his ownership over the seized goods during the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt; margin-bottom: 3%;\">Based upon an intelligence input, the consignment (under challenge) was supposed to contain Memory Module of 4GB, 8GB and 32GB D-RAM valuing Rs. 80 Lakhs approximately, but on inspection was found to contain 3800 iPhones valuing approximately Rs. 42 Crores. Since the goods were mis-declared, the goods were seized under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565425\">110-A<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt; margin-bottom: 3%;\">An application under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565425\">110-A<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a> was filed which was rejected by the adjudicating authority due to lack of evidence regarding ownership by Salecha Electronics Inc\/Dinesh Bhabootmal Salecha. Assailing this, an appeal was preferred before CESTAT which was thereby allowed. and provisional release of the goods were directed. The Tribunal held that <b>even when an \u2018owner\u2019 had not been defined in the Customs Act yet, the term \u2018owner\u2019 was deployed in the definition of an \u2018importer\u2019 under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565549\">2(26)<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a> and by default, ownership could be claimed by an \u2018importer\u2019.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt; margin-bottom: 3%;\">On the contention of the respondent that the authorities had considered the Respondent to be an owner because the show cause notice was issued to him in terms of Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565457\">124<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a>, the Court noted that on a perusal of Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565457\">124<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a>, it can be seen that issuance of a show cause notice in terms of Section 124 does not necessarily establish that the person in whose name it is issued, is necessarily the owner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt; margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court further noted that <b>on a careful reading of Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565425\">110-A<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a>, it is abundantly clear that goods seized may be released to the owner. The said section does not include or envisage release of goods provisionally in favor of an \u2018importer\u2019 of goods much less does it envisage, a release in favor of \u2018any person\u2019, in addition to the \u2018owner\u2019 as mentioned in Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565457\">124<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a>, who has been served a notice under the said section.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt; margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court held that the Tribunal has committed an error in importing the definition of an \u2018importer\u2019 as defined under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565549\">2(26)<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a> and reading the same in Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001565425\">110-A<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002780399\">Customs Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt; margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Commissioner of Customs (Import) v. Dinesh Bhabootmal Salecha, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/ZFCm6D1R\">2022 SCC OnLine Bom 1808<\/a>, decided on 08-09-2022<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt;\">Mr. Advait Sethna a\/w Mr. Rangan Majumdar i\/b Ms. Ruju Thakker, Advocates, for the Appellant;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt;\">Mr. Prakash Shah a\/w Mr. Jas Sanghavi i\/b PDS Legal, Advocates, for the Respondent.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">*Arunima Bose, Editorial Assistant has put this report together.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing could prevent the legislature from specifically incorporating a provision in Section 110-A Customs Act, 1962 to also entitle, besides an owner, an importer, a beneficial owner or any person holding himself to be an importer to claim a right to seek provisional release of goods in terms of Section 110-A of Customs Act, 1962<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":261881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2518,6651,35786,12111,35785,51762,51763,51764,7861,51765,51766,12121],"class_list":["post-273909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-Bombay_High_Court","tag-cestat","tag-confiscation","tag-customs-act","tag-customs-department","tag-importer","tag-inspection-of-goods","tag-iphones","tag-owner","tag-ownership-of-seized-goods","tag-provisional-release","tag-seizure-of-goods"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does seized goods may be released in favor of an \u2018owner\u2019 or an \u2018importer\u2019 under Section 110-A Customs Act? 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