RAMANUJAM, J. :- The appellant herein is aggrieved against the order dated 5-10-1979, of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Appellate Board which affirmed the order dated 9-3-1976 of the Assistant Director of Enforcement holding the appellant guilty of contravention of S.5 (1). (aa) and S.9 (1) (b) of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Acts,1947 and 1973 respectively and levying a penalty of an aggregate sum of Rs. 15,000 in respect of these violation.

2. On information that the appellant has received certain payments from a person in India under instructions from a person resident abroad, the appellant was summoned to appear before the Chief Enforcement Officer. He gave a statement that two sums of Rs. 2000 and Rs. 3000 were received by him by sale of paddy and denied that the said amounts received by him represented payments received under instructions from a person residing abroad. As the statement given by him was found not satisfactory on enquiry, again he was summoned to appear on 3-3-1976 and on that date he gave a statement that his co-brother S.A. Ibrahim working in Singapore as a clerk in a shop represented to him in September, 1973, that he has arranged to send a sum o