FAISALABAD: The stealing of large number of mobile phones from State Warehouse (SWH) of Faisalabad dry Port is a big challenge being faced by the dry port management.
Sources told Customs Today that Customs Collectorate has submitted a First Information Report (FIR) number CJ-6/23/2018-863 against suspect involved in theft of 1661 mobiles having value of Rs 11741999.
Brief facts of the case are that Inspector Safdar Ali unlock warehouse for delivery of the auction able goods from the godown. When he approached towards the fenced area where confiscated mobiles phones were kept, he noticed the breakage of the bars and were found cut and folded upwards.
He closed the godown and reported the incident to officer concerned and contacted technical team for gathering information from CCTV footage recording. The CCTV footage shows that incident happened between 1:40 am to 3:00 am whereas four persons are visible in their footage who cut the bars of the fence area and took away 1161 pieces of foreign origin mobile phones.
It is necessary to mention here that these kind criminal activities were a routine matter at Faisalabad dry port and a number of costly items including diesel oil spare parts and batteries were stolen from vehicles of the customs and others staff.
