A recent Bombay high court judgment protects artistic freedom and ensures that bureaucratic overreach based on personal ...

The Bombay High Court has prevented Indian customs from destroying a group of works by two of the country’s best-known ...

The Bombay High Court has ruled against the customs department's confiscation of seven nude artworks by renowned artists ...

Still, in 2024, the Assistant Commissioner of Customs prohibited the import and ordered confiscation and possibly destruction of seven drawings by world-renowned artists, viz. Mr. F.N. Souza and ...

Still in 2024, the ACC prohibited import and ordered confiscation of seven drawings by world-renowned artists on the basis of obscenity, it said. Justice Sonak, who authored the verdict further ...

"Still, in 2024, the Assistant Commissioner of Customs prohibited the import and ordered confiscation (and possibly ...

The Bombay High Court criticized Customs for seizing nude artworks of renowned artists Souza and Padamsee, questioning their ...

The artworks were seized on the grounds that they are prohibited for import as they are considered obscene ... In 1979, Souza ...

The Special Postal Investigation Branch (SPIB) of Mumbai Customs has arrested a 38-year-old German national for allegedly importing cocaine and marijuana through an international parcel.

We’ve came across various past instances where the said artists themselves had to fight for exhibition of their drawings/ paintings and had to even fight with customs itself for importing their ...