HYDERABAD: Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Hyderabad has seized smuggled foreign origin cigarette, gutka along with non-duty paid Hino truck and Toyota Land Cruiser worth Rs 18.8 million during the month of September and arrested two persons.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Agha Shahid Majeed received secret information about some smuggling attempts. He constituted a team under the supervision of Additional Collector Rehmatullah Vistro. The ASO team comprising Additional Collector Omar Shafique , Nafees Ahmad Khan, Superintendent Saleem Channa, Deputy Superintendent Sikander Panwar, Deputy Superintendent Anwar Ahmed Siddiqui Inspector Khair Muhammad Pathan, Inspector Waqar Ahmed Baig, Inspector Shafi Muhammad Jamali, Inspector Mushtaq Ali Lakho, Usman Junejo and Muhammad Isa sepoyes.
The ASO team established various checking points at different roads of Hyderabad and started checking of vehicles. During checking the ASO team recovered non-duty paid foreign origin cigarettes worth Rs 77,12,500/- involving duty /taxes amounting to Rs 1,11,71,708/- Indian gutka worth Rs 91,20,000 duty / taxes Rs 62,96,062/- along with Hino truck worth bearing registration No TKC 100 model 1985 worth Rs10 ,00,000/-.
The ASO team arrested two persons and after registering separate cases of smuggling started further investigations.
