RAMDIYA VERMA vs COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS NEW DELHI & ANR.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 1st April, 2025 W.P.(C) 4004/2025 & CM APPL. 18603/2025 RAMDIYA VERMA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. D.S. Chadha, Adv. (M:9818563676) versus COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS NEW DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Anushree Narain, SSC with Mr. Ankit Kumar, Adv. CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH JUSTICE RAJNEESH KUMAR GUPTA Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral) 1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode. CM APPL. 18603/2025 (for exemption) 2. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. Application is disposed of. W.P.(C) 4004/2025 3. The present petition has been filed by the Petitioner- Mr. Ramdiya Verma under Article 226 of the Constitution of India inter alia seeking release of his gold kada detained by the Respondent No.1 - Commissioner of Customs vide Detention Receipt No. DR/INDEL4/25-0502023/001949 dated 25th May 2023 (hereinafter, ‘detention receipt’). 4. The case of the Petitioner is that he is a resident of Kurukshetra, Haryana and he had got made a gold kada in 2019, from the gold which his mother had given to him. The Petitioner travelled to Bangkok and returned W.P.(C) 4004/2025 2023. Upon arrival, the Petitioner was inter