FAISALABAD: Customs Adjudication Additional Collector Beelam-ur-Ramzan has issued Order-in-Original (ONO) in favour of the Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO), Mainwali, while deciding a case of non-duty paid Toyota Hilux double cabin.
A team of ASO following information received through Additional Collector Muhammad Saeed Asad intercepted a used Toyota Hilux bearing Registration No. QAZ-8901 (Quetta ), Model 2011 near Chashma Power Plant Road, Mianwali.
The owner of the vehicle, who was identified as Asghar Hussain, was asked to show documents regarding the legal import of the vehicle but he remained fail to produce the import documents. Therefore, the staff impounded the vehicle under Section 2(s), and 16, of the Customs Act, 1969.
Later, the Mainwali ASO team sent its chassis for forensic test. The report clarified that present chassis number is not original as it is tempered with. The officials sent the case to the Customs Adjudication for further legal action.
However, no one appeared to defend the case from respondent side and no any written reply was submitted before the adjudication. While, Inspector Muhammad Asif appeared from the prosecution side and asserted that the seized vehicle fell under the ambit of Section 2(s) of the Customs Act, 1969.
Therefore, Additional Collector Beelam has issued ONO in favour of the ASO and ordered to impound the vehicle under Section 156(1) 89(i) of the Customs Act read with clause (a), of the preamble of SRO 499(1)/2009.
