law: Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act, 1976
  16. Information to competent authority -
  (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any
  
  other law, the competent authority shall have power to require any officer or
  
  authority of the Central Government or a State Government or a local authority
  
  to furnish information in relation to such persons, points or matters as in the
  
  opinion of the competent authority will be useful for, or relevant to, the
  
  purposes of this Act.
  (2) Any officer of the Income - tax Department,
  
  the Customs Department or the Central Excise Department or any officer of
  
  enforcement appointed under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 (46 of
  
  1973 ) may furnish sou motu any information available with him to the competent
  
  authority if in the opinion of the officer such information will be useful to
  
  the competent authority for the purposes of this Act.