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Issues: Whether the confiscation and penalties under the Gold (Control) Act, 1968 were sustainable when the appellants claimed that the seized gold ornaments were duly accounted for, covered by voucher, and the initial statement of the person intercepted was promptly retracted.
Analysis: The evidence on record showed that the defence was supported by the statutory records, the voucher book, the telegraphic retraction, and the surrounding circumstances, including the bus ticket and the admitted prior dealings between the parties. The impugned order rested mainly on the spot statement and the denial by the customer firm, but it did not deal with the immediate retraction or the documentary material. A retracted confessional statement cannot be relied upon without proper independent support. In the absence of any rebuttal showing that the voucher was fabricated later or that the statutory accounts were false, the seized ornaments could not be treated as unaccounted or clandestinely dealt with.
Conclusion: The charge of contravention was not proved and the confiscation and penalties could not stand.
Ratio Decidendi: A promptly retracted confession, unsupported by independent evidence and contradicted by contemporaneous documentary and circumstantial material, is insufficient to sustain confiscation or penalty.
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