FAISALABAD: The Customs Adjudication Deputy Collector Saima Ayyaz ordered to impound non-duty paid Toyota Land Cruiser under customs laws while issuing an Order-in-Original (ONO) No 83/2018 in favor of the Anti-Smuggling Organisation Mianwali.
Following information, the Customs ASO Mianwali intercepted a Toyota Land Cruiser with bearing registration no BD-3470 near M.M Alam Road. ASO team and asked the driver to show documents regarding legal import of the vehicle. But he failed to produce the same besides the officials could not found online computer record of the vehicle on the website of Motor Registration Authority (MRA).
The Customs ASO impounded the vehicle and forwarded its chassis for forensic test to Islamabad Laboratory. The report of forensic lab revealed that the number was bogus and not original. The report also clarified that present chassis number is not original so the case was forwarded for adjudication for further proceeding.
Meanwhile, no one appeared to defend the case from respondent side and nor any written reply was received from the respondent side to the adjudication department.
While Inspector Malik Atif Mumtaz appeared from the prosecution side and asserted that the seized vehicle fall under the ambit of section 2(s) of the Customs Act 1969. He also asked the court to issue orders regarding the confiscation of the vehicle.
Therefore, Deputy Collector Saima Ayyaz after reviewing the record of the case commented that the charges leveled in the show cause notice are established.
She issued an ONO and ordered to impound the vehicle under Section 156(1)89(i) of the Customs Act 1969 read with clause (a) of the SRO 499(1)/2009.
