ISLAMABAD: The Collector Adjudication Seema Raza Bokhari served a show cause notice on owner of smuggled goods who attacked ASO raiding party after tearing their government uniform, took their wallets, cell phones and also opened fire on them where three customs staffers got serious injuries as well as the official vehicles of staff also damaged.
Brief facts of the case are that on 30th March 2018 ASO squad raided a godown at Peshawar but the owners of godown fled away from the place of occurrence.
The sources told that the raiding staff took over all the four trucks loaded with foreign origin miscellaneous goods. Meanwhile occupants of the godown namely Haji Gul, Zahir Shah, Haji Imran, Fazal Akbar, Sher Akbar, Rahim Khan, Ghulam Nabi, Shakir and Muhammad Zarin who were reportedly owners of the said godown along with 30 to 40 unknown smugglers duly equipped with arms and sticks/stones attacked the raiding parties where four customs staffers seriously injured.
The offenders escaped from the spot while four trucks bearing registration truck no: E-1425, truck P-8569, truck-C-8120, truck-Z-8892 were seized. Trucks were loaded with foreign origin smuggled goods. The case vide FIR No.23/2018 against above-said smugglers registered in police station, I&I branch Customs Peshawar, against violation of Customs Act 1969 section 2(s),16,167.
