Detention of goods in transit quashed where required transport documents were available and detention lacked legal basis.

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....Where a vehicle and goods in transit were detained, the Court found that all transportation documents required to accompany the goods were available at the time of detention. On that factual basis, the detention was treated as resting on extraneous grounds and therefore lacking legal basis. The impugned notice and detention order were quashed, and consequential relief was directed to follow forthwith.....