These petitions coming on for orders as to admission on this day upon perusing the petition and the affidavit filed in support thereof the order of the High Court and made herein and.............. and upon hearing the arguments of Mr. Habibullah Badsha for M/s D.A. Stewart and M.A. Kalam, Advocates for the petitioner and of Mr. P. Narasimhan, Central Govt. Standing Counsel for the respondents 1 to 6 and others Mr. Sriramulu Special Prosecutor for (SPE) Cases for the 4th respondent, and having stood over for consideration till this day the Court made the following order :

All these three writ petitions can be dealt with under a common order, since the writ petitioner in all the writ petitions is the same. The relief asked for in all the writ petitions is identical except that each of the petitions relates to different consignments.

2.The short facts are as follows :

One Messrs Continental Silk House, 47, 3rd Main Road, 4th Block, Rajaji Road, Bangalore, filed three bills of entry all dated 29th of September, 1986 for the clearance of 25 bales of mulberry silk in each case. The goods were imported by vessel 'VELENJI'. The vessel arrived on 27-9-1986. Messrs. Jeena & Co., the