125A. Customs ticket notice

Where an officer of customs has reasonable grounds for believing that a person has committed an offence under this Act which is prescribed as an offence to which this section applies, the officer may, in lieu of applying to a court for a summons, immediately serve upon that person a prescribed notice requiring that person to attend at the court described, at the hour and on the date specified in the notice.

A duplicate of the notice must be prepared by the officer of customs and, if so required by a court, produced to the court.

The notice may be served on the person alleged to have committed the offence in the manner provided by section 92(1).

On an accused person appearing before a court pursuant to such a notice, the court is to take cognizance of the offence alleged and proceed as though the person were produced before it in pursuance of section 153 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.

If a person, upon whom such a notice has been served, fails to appear before a court in person or by counsel in accordance therewith, the court may, if satisfied that the notice was duly served, issue a warrant for the arrest of the person unless, in the case of an offence which may be compounded, that person has before that date been permitted to compound the offence.

Upon a person arrested pursuant to a warrant issued under subsection (5) being produced before a court, the court is to proceed as though the person were produced before it in pursuance of section 153 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.

[Deleted by Act 31 of 2022 wef 01/11/2022]

A senior officer of customs or an officer empowered with the power of senior officer of customs may, at any time before the date specified in the notice, cancel the notice.