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Importer Challenges Confiscation: Goods Auctioned Without Notification Violates Legal Procedures, Questions Validity of Seizure Process.
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....Validity of confiscation proceedings - Rejection of value of importer - imported goods auctioned without prior notice to the appellant - It is a settled law that once the goods are seized or confiscated and the proceedings against the same are pending before the authority / Court then the only option available to the department is to obtain necessary permission from the court before whom the proceedings are pending and also to issue notice to the assessee from whose possession goods have been seized before auctioning the goods. - AT....