New Delhi, February 25: Irked over non-compliance of its order to release the confiscated money to a litigant, a Delhi court today issued a bailable warrant against a customs commissioner and asked the police to execute it by tomorrow.
“Issue bailable warrants against the Commissioner of Customs in the sum of Rs 10,000 to be executed through SHO of police station Tilak Marg,” Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Pandey said.
The court took the coercive step saying “neither the application for dispensing with the personal appearance of Commissioner has been signed by any officer nor the compliance of the order dated February 23, 2010 is done.”
The order came in a criminal case lodged by the Customs department against Anand Mohan Chaudhray, who was to be given back some confiscated currency by the department in pursuance of the earlier court directive.
–Agencies