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Issues: Whether the First Information Report and consequential proceedings could be quashed against the applicants in view of the bonded warehouse being under Customs control, the police having no authority to undertake search and seizure there, and the absence of material to prosecute the applicants under the Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949.
Analysis: The bonded warehouse was under the supervision and control of the Customs Department and the Central Government. The police had no independent authority to carry out search and seizure in such premises and could not usurp the functions vested in the Customs authorities. The record also showed that the Customs Department had already acted in the matter, including confiscation proceedings under the Customs Act, 1962, on the very irregularities noticed. In these circumstances, there was no material linking the applicants with any prosecutable offence under the Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949.
Conclusion: The First Information Report and all consequential proceedings were quashed qua the applicants.
Final Conclusion: The prosecution could not be sustained against the applicants, and the criminal proceedings arising from the impugned FIR were terminated.
Ratio Decidendi: Criminal process cannot be allowed to continue where the investigating agency acts beyond its lawful sphere of authority and the record discloses no prima facie material warranting prosecution.
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