Customs Failed to Justify Summoning Appellant for Gold Search, Making Seizure Invalid Under Law.

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....Validity of Search and Seizure - Smuggling - Gold - As per the show cause notice, pieces of gold were found with the appellant at the Railway station as well as the Customs House. The reasons for summoning a person, instead of searching and seizing on the same spot and taking him to the Customs House for detailed search etc. has not been properly explained in the show cause notice and in the order-in-original. - the seizure of the impugned gold is not maintainable - AT....