SIALKOT: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Zone-III has confiscated Indian origin cloth and black peppers worth Rs 200,000 during an action on Grand Trunk (GT) Road
On the directions of ASO Zone-III incharge Deputy Collector Muhammad Hanif, Superintendent Muhamamd Naeem deputed Inspector Muhammad Arshad to check vehicle on GT road and keep an eye on transit trade vehicles.
The said inspector along with his team started checking of vehicles on GT Road near Link Road Mandi Bahauddin. The team intercepted a bus bearing Registration No RIP-8009-03 and conducted search that led to the recovery of cloth and black peppers.
The officials asked driver Naseer about booking documents and import documents of recovered cloth and black pepper, but he could not produce the same. The driver revealed that the goods were booked from General Bus Stand Mirpur (AJK).
The team confiscated the recovered items under the customs laws and shifted to the office of Model Customs Collectorate, Sialkot. The team released driver after proper interrogation and registered case under customs law. The recovered items are of Kashmir Transit Trade, it is learnt.
Head of raiding party, Inspector Arshad told Custom Today that the ASO was performing duty to curb smuggling and the results were much satisfactory. He added that Sialkot Customs Collector Ahmed Reza Khan and other officers were mentoring the performance of all the three zones of ASO. The department was working by adopting latest strategies, besides focusing on roads to weed the smuggling in the region, he further added.
