Supreme Court of India

Vijay Ghanshyam Gadiya v. Union of India

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Bench Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu JJ.
Decided 2 September 2026

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the impugned order of the High Court confirming the penalty is consequently set aside together with the Order- in-Original, with the result that the proceedings against the appellant before the second respondent shall stand revived for being decided afresh by an officer of the same rank other than the one who passed the order dated 8th October, 2025.

Judgment, page 3

In brief

The Additional Commissioner of Customs, Surat passed an Order-in-Original dated 8th October 2025 imposing a penalty of Rs. 425,27,99,100 on the appellant under Section 114 of the Customs Act, 1962, for mis-declaring a consignment of natural diamonds as lab-grown diamonds so as to attract a lower tariff. The appellant contended that several judgments and articles cited in that Order-in-Original had been generated using Artificial Intelligence.…

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