https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=43948 Section 451 of the Code of Criminal Procedure permits a criminal court to order sale of seized property pending trial not only when the property is perishable, but also when sale is otherwise expedient. The seized goods were not shown to be subject to speedy decay, yet the Magistrate could still authorise sale because the defence did not oppose the request, the goods were occupying storage space, and preservation of representative sample pieces was enough to protect the trial. The refusal to permit sale was therefore unsustainable, and the impugned order was set aside with a direction to sell the case property after retaining samples for trial. en-us Mon, 26 Mar 1990 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:34:20 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=43948 Section 451 of the Code of Criminal Procedure permits a criminal court to order sale of seized property pending trial not only when the property is perishable, but also when sale is otherwise expedient. The seized goods were not shown to be subject to speedy decay, yet the Magistrate could still authorise sale because the defence did not oppose the request, the goods were occupying storage space, and preservation of representative sample pieces was enough to protect the trial. The refusal to permit sale was therefore unsustainable, and the impugned order was set aside with a direction to sell the case property after retaining samples for trial. Case-Laws Customs Mon, 26 Mar 1990 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=43948