FAISALABAD: Customs Adjudication Additional Collector Beelam-ur-Ramzan has issued ONO against Mohammad Amjad son of Mohammad Anwar, a resident of Faisalabad.
Sources informed Customs Today that Customs authorities received information that a Daewoo bus bearing registration no. FDS- 111 is heading towards Faisalabad from Rawalpindi. After receiving the information, the customs team set up a checkpost near Bilal Gunj Market , Sargodha Road. The customs team intercepted the vehicle and recovered a huge quantity of foreign origin cigarettes.
The team asked the driver, who was identified as Mohammad Amjad son of Mohammad Ramzan, to provide legal documents regarding possession and transportation of the foreign origin cigarettes. However, he failed to show any relevant documents. After his failure, the customs team seized the cigarettes and forwarded the case to customs Adjudication for legal proceedings.
During proceedings in Customs Adjudication Appraiser Shafqat Rasool and Inspector Ali Zahid appeared in Adjudication department but no one appeared to defend the case from respondent’s side and not any written reply has been received from the respondent.
Therefore Additional Collector Customs Adjudication Beelam-ur-Ramzan ordered the seized goods under clause 14 of section 156(1) and section 157(1) and (2) of the Customs Act 1969.
