https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=73232 Primary gold remained prohibited under Section 8(1)(i) of the Gold (Control) Act, 1968, because the statutory ban on possession operated independently of the declaration regime. Exoneration under Section 16(11) did not remove that prohibition, as the reference there was confined to gold required to be declared and the relevant exception for primary gold lay only in Section 12. Where possession was contrary to the Act, the gold was liable to confiscation as contraband under Section 71(1), and such confiscation did not amount to unconstitutional deprivation of property. en-us Sat, 18 Aug 1984 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:44:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=73232 Primary gold remained prohibited under Section 8(1)(i) of the Gold (Control) Act, 1968, because the statutory ban on possession operated independently of the declaration regime. Exoneration under Section 16(11) did not remove that prohibition, as the reference there was confined to gold required to be declared and the relevant exception for primary gold lay only in Section 12. Where possession was contrary to the Act, the gold was liable to confiscation as contraband under Section 71(1), and such confiscation did not amount to unconstitutional deprivation of property. Case-Laws Central Excise Sat, 18 Aug 1984 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=73232