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Issues: Whether the customs authorities could validly withhold the sanctioned drawback amount pending adjudication and whether they could also direct its transfer or re-credit to the revenue account under the seizure power.
Analysis: Section 110(3) of the Customs Act, 1962 confers power of seizure of goods, documents or things pending adjudication, but it does not authorise appropriation of the seized amount as revenue before the adjudicatory process is completed. Withholding the drawback amount was treated as a permissible protective measure akin to attachment before judgment and was held to be within jurisdiction. However, directing the Bank to transfer the amount to the revenue was held to be beyond the scope of Section 110(3). The amount was also considered not releasable to the petitioner in view of the pending adjudication and the protective order already operating in the connected matter.
Conclusion: The challenge to withholding failed, the direction to remit the amount to the revenue was unsustainable, and the petitioner was held not entitled to immediate release of the drawback amount.
Ratio Decidendi: The statutory power of seizure pending adjudication permits only custodial retention of the disputed amount and does not extend to pre-adjudication appropriation or transfer of that amount to the revenue.
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