LAHORE: The Customs authorities have decided to temporarily register tempered non-duty-paid vehicles for government official use in Lahore.
However, the confiscated vehicles used in smuggling attempts, jeeps, tempered vegans & trucks and commercial vehicles would not be registered.
The customs authorities have also sent an application to Excise Department to obtain computerized number plates of the vehicles, which would be temporarily registered. The Excise Department has started working on the application under the procedure devised on the previous direction of high court.
It is pertinent to mention that Customs Department confiscates hundreds of tempered vehicles every year in Punjab, out of which, most of the vehicles’ chasses numbers are erased or the part of chasses number is replaced with new number. The department auctions the non-duty-paid vehicles but tempered vehicles are not auctioned.
In past, the high court had allowed to utilise tempered vehicles for official use under the devised procedure, provincial laws and after permission of other concerned departments.
The tempered vehicles would be registered after being checked by the forensic lab.
