India, Feb. 9 -- The Bombay High Court last week directed the customs authorities to provisionally release a consignment of imported walnuts which was seized for alleged undervaluation and duty evasion, after observing that there was no incriminating evidence against the importer Santa Monica Farm Produce Private Limited (SMFPPL).

Directing the customs authorities to release the consignment comprising around 8,000 kilograms of in-shell walnuts within three days, a division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe observed, ".it cannot be a general rule that merely because some importers having alleged to have committed irregularities, every importer dealing in similar goods would be required to be painted with the same brush and the...