Nexus between cash and proceeds of crime established through excise-evasion evidence and uncorroborated source claims.

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....Provisional attachment of cash as proceeds of crime requires a demonstrated nexus between the property and the scheduled offence. Evidence of a double-trip mechanism, supported by the truck driver's statement, showed excise-duty evasion through repeated use of transport documents. The warehouse owner did not independently corroborate the claimed bank withdrawal or receipts from traders; a cash book retained in the owner's custody lacked independent evidentiary value. The absence of bank records, investigative material, and increased declared income established the nexus between the seized cash and illicit country-liquor transactions, so the cash was treated as proceeds of crime and the attachment remained in force.....