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Customs (Amendment) Act (No. 24 of 1991) - Sect 6

Insertion new section 12 of the principal enactment

6. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 127B, and shall have effort as section 127c of the principal enactment : -
127c. No person suspected or accused of an offence under this Ordinance in respect of any goods the value of which exceeds one million rupees, shall be released on bail except by the High Court, in exceptional circumstances. The power conferred on the High Court by this section shall be exercised by the Judge of the High Court holden in the Zone within which the accused resides or the Judge of the High Court holden in the Zone within which the offence is alleged to have been committed. ".


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