2009 (8) TMI 1200

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..... kept in Police custody and the gold biscuits which he was carrying was handed over to the Customs authorities on 14-5-1998. The gold was seized by the Customs authorities and the respondent was arrested and was sent to judicial custody where he remained from 15-5-1998 to 13-7-1998. After release from the judicial custody the respondent sent a telegram that the seized gold has been purchased by hi .....

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..... believed. The submission is wholly misconceived. The respondent was in judicial custody upto 13-7-1998 and immediately on his release on 14-7-1998 he had retracted from his statement by sending a telegram. Moreover on investigation by the Commissioner of Customs the gold in question have been found to have been purchased by respondent from Delhi party. Thus the confiscation was wholly illegal. .....

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