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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

Date of Decision: 18^thDecember, 2025

Uploaded on: 20th December, 2025

+ W.P.(C) 16673/2025

MOHAMMAD KHADIM KHAN .....Petitioner

Through: Mohd. Ather Ansari, Md. Mobin

Akhtar, Md. Salman, Advs.

versus

THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOM & ORS. .....Respondents

Through: Mr. Vishal Chadha Senior Standing

Counsel along with Mr. Chandan

Kumar Adv.

CORAM:

JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH

JUSTICE SHAIL JAIN

Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral)

1. The hearing has been done through hybrid mode.

2. The present petition has been filed by the Petitioner under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, inter alia, seeking release of the gold kada weighing 116 grams (hereinafter. ‘gold item’), which was detained by the Customs Department vide detention receipt bearing no.

DR/lNDEL4/16-01-2024/003547 dated 16th January, 2024.

3. A brief background of the Petitioner’s case is that he is an Indian passport holder who has been residing in Saudi Arabia for the past 10 years. The Petitioner has purchased the gold item from Saudi Arabia. The Petitioner had travelled back to India on 16th January, 2024. Upon his arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, he was intercepted