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Issues: Whether the seized silver ornaments, Indian currency and Bahi Khatas were returned to the concerned person, and whether the appellate authority erred in upholding the order finding such return.
Analysis: The records showed that the show cause notice and the earlier adjudication primarily concerned confiscation of gold under the Gold Control Act, 1968, while the later order recorded, in its factual narration, that the silver ornaments, cash and Bahi Khatas had already been returned on the next day after seizure. Reading the earlier release direction together with the factual recital in the adjudication order, the Tribunal applied harmonious construction to reconcile the two parts of the record and treated the recital as confirming return of those articles. On that basis, no infirmity was found in the appellate order affirming the original order.
Conclusion: The finding that the silver ornaments, Indian currency and Bahi Khatas were returned was upheld, and the challenge to the appellate order failed.
Final Conclusion: The appeal was dismissed as the record supported the conclusion that the disputed non-gold articles had been returned and the impugned order disclosed no legal infirmity.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the contemporaneous record and the earlier adjudication can be reconciled, the Tribunal may apply harmonious construction to uphold a factual finding of return of seized goods, and such finding will not be interfered with absent infirmity in the impugned order.
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