FAISALABAD: Customs Adjudication Additional Collector Beelam-ur-Ramzan has issued a show cause notice to an accused in a used smuggled Toyota Hilux surf case involving Rs1.316million duty.
Faisalabad Customs Intelligence and Investigation, following a tip-off, impounded used Toyota Hilux surf with Registration No: LEC-11-3777 near M M Alam Road Mainwali.
The team asked the driver of the vehicle named Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan, a resident of Mianwali, to show documents regarding the legal import of the vehicle but he could not produce the same.
Therefore the officials impounded the vehicle and forwarded the case to the Customs Adjudication for further legal action.
Additional Collector Beelam-ur-Ramzan issued notice to the accused on the violation of Section 10-A 89(1) and 156(1) of the Customs Act-1969.
However the adjudication has directed the accused to file a reply on the next date of hearing i.e. 10 , 03 , 2017 .The seizing agency has also been directed to file a reply in the case.
The adjudication authority also directed Customs Intelligence Deputy Director Muhammad Riaz Hussain to attend the hearing on scheduled date along with the relevant record.