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Issues: Whether the Bureau of Investigation (Economic Offences) had jurisdiction to conduct the search and seizure of the petitioners' goods on the basis of an allegation that the goods were stolen or smuggled.
Analysis: The notification constituting the Bureau of Investigation (Economic Offences) as a police station for specified economic offences was examined in the context of the alleged seizure. The jurisdiction conferred by the notification was limited to the offences enumerated in the Schedule, and did not extend to a general offence of theft or to powers of search and seizure in relation to smuggled goods. The statutory scheme under the Customs Act, 1962 vests powers concerning smuggled goods and their search and seizure in specified customs officers. Since the respondent-authority itself proceeded on the basis that the goods were suspected to be stolen or smuggled, the essential jurisdictional fact required to invoke its authority was absent.
Conclusion: The search and seizure were without jurisdiction and were set aside.
Final Conclusion: The petitioners succeeded in challenging the impugned seizure, and the consequential reliefs flowed from the finding that the initiating authority lacked power to act on the facts of the case.
Ratio Decidendi: An authority can exercise coercive powers only within the jurisdiction conferred by the enabling notification or statute, and where the foundational jurisdictional fact is absent, the resulting search and seizure are liable to be quashed.
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