Benami routing of demonetised cash through RTGS entries was...

Benami routing of demonetised cash through RTGS entries was upheld where the appellant could not show any prior business relationship with the linked firms, and its bullion-sale explanation rested only on self-generated bills and records. The Tribunal treated the bill mismatches, overwriting, immediate post-demonetisation timing, and the alleged benamidar's admission of receiving cash for RTGS entries as corroboration of the respondent's case, and sustained provisional attachment. On natural justice, denial of cross-examination did not vitiate the order because no statement of one intermediary was on record, the alleged benamidar was offered cross-examination but did not appear, and no actual prejudice was shown.

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