1986 (2) TMI 189

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....that 2 (two) Karas, mentioned at Sl. Nos. 1 & 7 of the Panchnama, belonged to the domestic jewellery and rest of the ornaments belonged to four different customers, who had given them for minor repair and washing on the same day in the morning and that the said ornaments could not be entered into the repair register as their Munim had not attended the shop and he himself being an illiterate person could not do the job. After the usual enquiry, the learned Adjudicating Authority rejected the defence of the appellant holding that it was an after-thought and ordered that the-seized gold ornaments, that is to say, 73 pieces weighing 437.300 gms. be confiscated under section 71 of the Gold (Control) Act with an option to redeem the same on payme....