Charanjit Talwar, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner, Bhupinder Singh, challenges the legality of the detention order passed by the Administrator of the Union Territory of Delhi on 26th April, 1985, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 (1) read with section 2 (f) of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (herein called the Act ), with a view to preventing the petitioner from smuggling goods into India and also with a view to preventing him from engaging in ransporting, concealing and keeping smuggled goods. By virtue of the said order the petitioner is detained in Central Jail Tihar, Delhi. The grounds of detention also dated 26th April, 1984 were served on the petitioner, on 4th May, 1985.

( 2 ) IT is mentioned in the grounds of detention that the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence had received information during the months of March/ April, 1984 that a gang of smugglers was indulging in smuggling of contraband goods through the Central Warehousing Corporation, Gurgaon Road, New Delhi, with the connivance of officers of customs posted there. The petitioner was one of those officers. A specific intelligence was gathered by the

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