HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Customs ASO has seized 48 cartons of different brand of cigarettes approximately worth Rs 1.2 million during a raid .
Sources told Customs Today that the ASO team, following the instructions of Collector MCC Hyderabad Dr Ahmed Mujtaba Memon, conducted raid in different localities of the region to curb smuggling.
After these instructions a team of Customs ASO under the supervision MCC Hyderabad Additional Collector Omar Shafique raided Bolan Mail Express at Kotri Railway Station and seized 48 cartons of foreign origin cigarettes . These cartons were being smuggled from Quetta to Hyderabad.
Officials told Customs Today that a seizure report has been prepared and 48 cartons of foreign origin cartons of various of brands already deposited to the Hyderabad State Warehouse. The ASO team comprising deputy superintendent Syed Saleem Shah and which took part in the operation