FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) confiscated the already-held 7,322 yards of silk cloth worth Rs 1 million and an auto rickshaw being used to transport the smuggled goods, as no one appeared before the competent authority to prove the legal importation.
Credible information was received by Faisalabad Customs Collector Tauseef Ahmed Qureshi that an attempt to smuggle silk cloth would be made. Collector Tauseef passed on the information to the ASO staff and directed them to foil the smuggling bid in Faisalabad.
The ASO team comprising Superintended Zahid Bukhari, Inspector Safder Ali, Mehmood and Ahmad Dogar intercepted a rickshaw bearing registration number LER-2726 near the Railways Station, Faisalabad, and recovered 7,322 yards of silk cloth worth Rs 1 million.
The ASO staff asked the driver to produce any documentary evidence showing the legal import and lawful possession of the goods. However, he could not produce any document relating to its legal import or lawful possession, on which the customs authorities seized the said item.
