SARGODHA: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has impounded a non-duty paid used Seira Jimni jeep model 1984 bearing registration number TBA-9767 in Sargodha. The market value of the seized vehicle is Rs 6 million while its involving customs duty value is Rs 6.1 million.
Sources told Customs Today, that Assistant Collector Shah Samad Hamadani received information that some non-duty paid vehicles are plying on roads of Sargodha and the same are brought into the country through an unauthorized route and without payment of duty and taxes.
After receiving the information, Assistant Collector constituted a raiding team comprising Superintendent Chaudhary Muhammad Sardar and Bashir Ahmed, Ansir Saleemi Rana Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Ameen Shafqat, Mehmood Muhammad Feroz, Muhammad Mansha (sepoys).
The ASO team intercepted a Seira Jimni jeep near 47 Adda Sargodha and asked the owner of the vehicle, who was identified as Saghir Nawaz to produce legal documents regarding the import of the vehicle but the owner failed to provide the same. Upon his failure the ASO team impounded the vehicle and registered a case against him.
