FAISALABAD: The Customs Adjudication Additional Collector Muhammad Saeed Asad issued Order-in- Original (ONO) by declaring the confiscation of a non-duty paid vehicle lawful, which was impounded by the Model Customs Collectorate Faisalabad Field Intelligence Unit Mianwali.
As per the details, the ASO team intercepted a foreign origin Toyota Land Cruiser five door with registration no: LZR-298 (Lahore) near Chashma Barrage district Mianwali and asked its owner, who was identified as Hamid Ullah son of Gul Ruppay Jan to provide the legal documents of the vehicle but he failed to do the same.
The ASO team impounded the Toyota Land Cruiser and registered a case against its owner and forwarded the case to the Customs Adjudication.
During the inspection of the said vehicle the chassis number of the vehicle was tampered with on which the vehicle was sent for a laboratory test to get confirmation whether the chassis number was tampered with or not.
However, the chemical test proved that the chassis number was meddled with and the vehicle was smuggled into the country without payments of duty/taxes leviable thereon.
On the other hand, no one appeared to defend the case from the respondent side, nor did any written reply was sent to counter the allegation before the court.
Therefore, order for outright confiscation of the impounded vehicle in favour of the federal government under Section 156(1)89(i) of Customs Act 1969 was issued by the Customs Adjudication order in original (ONO) No 36/2017.
