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1. The allegations against Harjit Singh petitioner who seeks pre-arrest bail from this Court under Section. 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short, the Code) are that Crime No. RC/ 1/90(A)ACU(VI) under Section 120B read with Sections 420, 467, 468 and 474, Indian Penal Code, Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and under Sections. 132, 135 and 136 of the Customs Act, 1962, was regisrtered on April 30, 1990, against Messrs Continental Carriers Pvt. Ltd., Messrs Dolman Commercial India Pvt. Ltd., Messrs Satya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., Prem Kumar, Ramesh Kumar and certain unnamed officers of the Customs Department and certain other unknown persons, wherein the accused persons are alleged to have hatched a criminal conspiracy for illegal import of silver from Singapore to India and that in furtherance of said criminal conspiracy, Messrs Continental Carriers Pvt. Ltd. imported six consignments of silver bars weighing 15600 kgs. valued at Rs. 10,92,00,000/- approximately from June 1989 to October, 1989. The said consignments were imported as Diplomatic Cargo of the Embassy of the Germany People and Republic, New Delhi. The delivery of the abovesaid consignments was taken from Air Cargo Complex I.G.I. Airport, New Delhi by fraudulently submitting forged documents purported to have been issued by the Embassy of the Hungarian People Republic, New Delhi and forged exemption certificate purported to have been issued by the Ministry of External Affairs.