Judgment

AYYANGAR, J. There are no merits in this appeal by special leave and it deserves to be dismissed.

2. The appellant obtained, in November 1951, an import licence from the Joint Chief Controller of Imports at Calcutta, for importing " iron and steel bolts, nuts set screws, machine screws and machine studs, excluding bolts, nuts and screws, adapted for use on cycles." In purported conformity with this licence the appellant imported from Japan through Bedi port 221 cases of bolts and nuts during the period April 4, 1952 to July 14, 1952. The cases were described in the Bills of the Entry which he filed as " Stove Bolts and Nuts" and he produced the import licence of November 1951 as his authority to clear the goods, One hundred and ninetytwo of these cases were cleared out of the port customs but before the rest of the 89 cases could be cleared, the Customs authorities got suspicious that the goods were mis-described and though called " stove Bolts and Nuts" in the invoices and relative documents they were really identifiable parts of bolts and nuts of the " Jackson Type single bolt oval plate belt fasteners" whose importation had been prohibited by a Notification of the Minist