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Keywords: Customs Officers, Imprisonment, Government, Manufacturing, Examination, Notice, Magistrate, Possession, Ownership, Customs, Selling, Defence, Information, Guilty, Goods, Violation, Recovery, Conviction, Prohibition, Premises, Custody, Seizure, Set Aside, Determination, Tenant, Claims, Presumption, Investigation, Tenancy, Prosecution, Place, Orders, Property, Petition, Evidence Result: Appeal accepted JUDGMENT TUFAIL ALI A. RAHMAN, C. J. The prosecution case is that on the 23rd April 1967 information was received by P. W. Syed Ghulam Abbas, who is a Preventive Officer at Customs House at Karachi that some contraband cloth and gold in liquid form wag concealed in premises said to be occupied by the appellant and one Zafar A.I. The address of these premises was not known but it was stated that there would be a big board displaying the words "Central Public School" and the premises would easily be located. Accord ingly the witness organised a raiding party consisting of himself and two other Customs Officers namely Karamat A.I and Arbab besides two mashirs one of whom was Samidad Khan. The party found the premises easing enough and when they knocked at the door the appellant came out. The witness Ghulam Abbas informed him that he bad information that contraband goods were concealed in their premises and the appellant allowed the party to enter the premises. On entering and crossing a gallery they came into a room in which they found several items of cloth and clothing and 999 bottles of what had been described as liquid gold. I have not been quite able to understand nor were counsel in the case able to advise me as to what the expression "liquid gold" means. I imagine it cannot mean metallic gold for metallic gold at normal temperature and pressure would not be liquid and possibly this may be a chemical preparation of which gold is the main ingredient and from which gold can be easily extracted so as to make the preparation commercially attractive for persons in the trade of buying/ selling gold or manufacturing articles there from. However, this does not very much matter in the present case for the Assistant Advocate-General candidly said that inasmuch…

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