IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.SAM KOSHY AND THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUDDALA CHALAPATHI RAO W.P.No.32216 OF 2024

12.03.2026 Between:

Smt. Fariya Khaleed …Petitioner A N D The Principal Commissioner, Hyderabad Customs Commissionerate, Room No.808, 7^th Floor, GST Bhavan, L.B.Statium Road, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad and 2 others …Respondents ORDER : (per Hon’ble Sri Justice P.Sam Koshy)

Heard Mr. Mirza Mahmood Ali Baig, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr.Dominic Fernandes, learned Senior Standing Counsel for the CBIC for respondent No.1 and Mr.M.P.Kashyap, learned Senior Standing Counsel for the CBIC for respondent No.2. Perused the record.

2. The present is a writ petition which has been filed being aggrieved by the seizure of certain gold ornaments which the petitioner is said to have brought to India from Dubai on

19.10.2024.

3. The contention of the department is that the petitioner brought about 4 flat bars, 4 jumkis, 3 lockets and 1 ring, weighing 388.600 gms, then valued at 31,16,961/-. The department had issued summons to the petitioner under Section 108 of the Customs Act, 1962 on 20.10.2024, after which she had immediatel