Future benefit in benami transactions need not exist at provisional attachment, supporting confirmation where funds trace to beneficial owner.

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....The third limb of a benami transaction, requiring property to be held for the beneficial owner's future benefit, carries no fixed time limit and need not be established when provisional attachment is made. Provisional attachment may occur immediately to prevent alienation or transfer. Funds supplied by the beneficial owner for relatives' property purchases, coupled with their failure to substantiate independent income or a documented loan arrangement, supported treatment of the transactions as benami. Love and affection did not establish a genuine loan explanation where no supporting evidence existed. The transactions were treated as benami, and the confirmation of provisional attachment was sustained.....