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Principle Ignorance of fact is excused but ignorance of law is no excuse. Fact X was a passenger from Zurich to Manila in a Swiss Plane. When the plane landed at the Airport of Bombay on November 28, 1962 it was found on searching that X carried 34 kg of Gold Bars on his person and that he had not declared it in the 'Manifest for Transit'. On November 26th, 1962 the Government of India had issued a notification modifying its earlier exemption, making it mandatory now that the gold must be declared in the 'Manifest' of the aircraft.

A)  X cannot be prosecuted because he had actually no knowledge about the new notification issued two days ago

B)  X cannot be prosecuted because ignorance of fact is excusable

C)  X can be prosecuted because ignorance of law is not excusable

D)  X's liability would depend on the discretion of the court