Yakin Yunus Patel v. Commissioner of Customs
Customs – Detention/Seizure of Passenger Goods – Release of Detained Goods
Case brief
What is this about?
W.P.(C) 8660/2025 | High Court of Delhi | Order dated 01.07.2025 | Customs law — seizure and detention of passenger's goods at IGI Airport; release of detained goods; Section 110 Customs Act time-limit for issuance of show cause notice / confirmation of seizure; waiver of show cause notice standard form; absence of Order-in-Original; Articles 226 and 227 Constitution of India; interception of passengers from Hong Kong; five iPhones as detained goods; warehousing charges payable by petitioner; Commissioner of Customs (Respondent, counsel Harpreet Singh SSC); petitioner Yakin Yunus Patel; bench: Justice Prathiba M. Singh, Justice Rajneesh Kumar Gupta; disposition: petition disposed of with conditional release directions.
What did the court decide?
Release of the five detained iPhones to the Petitioner, subject to payment of the entire warehousing charges; Petitioner to appear before the Customs Department on 14th July, 2025 with relevant documents, with release of the goods by 30th July, 2025; all pending applications disposed of.