Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
The Judicial Officers in the State should send the confiscated articles of Gold to the Master of the Mint India Government Mint, Bombay- 1. If the confiscated articles of Gold are a few and of a small value, they should be sent by the Registered Insured Post with a separate advance information to the Mint Master and if the articles are more or more valuable they should be sent under suitable invoice through the responsible officer of the Court to the aforesaid Mint at Bombay by prior arrangement. If the articles are more or more valuable and sent with an officer of the Court, the name of the dispatching Court and the name of the officer who will be accompanying such property, should be communicated in advance to the Master of the Mint who will assess the value of the articles and arrange to make the payment for the same. The payment made by the Master of the Mint to the Court for such transaction should be entered in the cash book and the amount be deposited in the treasury in due course. (b) As the scope for loss of muddamal property is greater in the case of disposed of cases, the Presiding Officer should see that the property is disposed of as soon as possible after the period indicated above. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-para (1) above, the Court may dispose of immediately after the disposal of the case any muddamal article consisting of livestock or property subject to speedy and natural decay or muddernal property in respect of which a bond is passed under sub-section (4) of section 452 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. (3) In other cases the person concerned should, as soon as possible after the expiry of the period indicated in paragraph 1 (a) above be asked by post card to appear before the trying Court to receive the muddamal. If he fail to do so, within fifteen days from the date of intimation, the property should be sold at his cost by public auction and the amount so realised credited to Criminal Deposits. If such property is valueless, the Presiding Officer may pass order for destroying it if ordered to return and not taken away in reasonable time. If the cash amount is not taken away for the period of three months, after the intimation as above, it should be deposited as Criminal Deposit in the Treasury.