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Issues: Whether the criminal complaint and summoning order could be quashed on the ground that the petitioner had already been exonerated in adjudication proceedings on merits and was not the beneficial owner of the seized foreign currency, making continuation of prosecution an abuse of process.
Analysis: The adjudication record, as affirmed in appeal and upheld in further challenge, had conclusively found that the petitioner was not the beneficial owner of the foreign currency and that the currency belonged to SEMPL. The Court noted that the exoneration was not on a technical ground but on merits, and that the complaint rested on the same factual foundation as the concluded adjudication proceedings. It further noted that the petitioner had no effective control over the foreign exchange, no material showed that it was carried on his behalf, and the statutory and administrative guidance in the Customs Manual permitted continuation of prosecution only where exoneration was merely technical. In these circumstances, the continuation of criminal proceedings was unsustainable.
Conclusion: The complaint and summoning order were liable to be quashed and the petition was allowed.
Ratio Decidendi: Where adjudication on the same facts has attained finality and the person is exonerated on merits, not being shown to be the beneficial owner or to have effective control over the goods, criminal prosecution on the same allegations cannot be continued.
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