ORDER.-On the basis of some reliable information that the petitioner had received a payment from a local person unauthorisedly as per the instructions of a person resident outside India, his person was searched under section 19-A of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 while he was travelling in a bus at Tambaram on 12th May, 1973. The search resulted in the seizure of Indian currency of Rs. 50,000 and two bus tickets. It is further stated in the counter-affidavit that on interrogation, the petitioner voluntarily admitted in writing that the amount was received at Madras on the previous day from an unknown person as per the instruc-tions of his uncle Sri Latheef of No. 9, Queen St., Penang, and he was carrying the money to his native place, Abhiramam, Ramanathapuram District, for the purchase of property for his uncle as instructed in the letter. Thereafter, the petitioner filed this writ petition praying for the issue of a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ directing the respondents herein to return the sum of Rs. 50,000 seized from him on 12th May, 1973. In the affidavit originally filed in support of the writ petition, the petitioner challenged the applicability

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