Court's Order to Return Seized Goods in Smuggling Case Overturned Due to Customs Act Oversight.

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....Validity of order of lower court for release of goods / return of goods to the accused - Smuggling - yellow coloured metallic bars believed to be gold of Foreign origin - The Learned Court also without appreciating the provision of Customs Act has wrongly passed the order on 05.04.2018, though, the show cause notice had been issued prior to that of the order passed by the Learned Court proposing confiscation of the goods as well as imposition of penalty, therefore, the Learned Court on 05.04.2018 ought not to have passed such order for return of the seized goods when the same has been taken care of by the adjudicating authority in terms of the Customs Act. - HC....