New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The Delhi High Court has upheld a GST Department search at the office of an advocate and the seizure of his computer and documents, while directing the authorities to use the cloned copy of the seized data for further investigation and ensure that confidential information relating to the advocate's other clients is not accessed.

A Division Bench of Justice Anil Khetarpal and Justice Shail Jain dismissed the writ petition challenging the search and seizure, holding that the search was carried out pursuant to a valid authorisation under Section 67(2) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act and could not be treated as unauthorised merely because the premises belonged to an advocate.

The court directed that, for fur...