PESHAWAR: The Mobile Squad-1 of the Customs House Peshawar has taken into possession a Suzuki pickup No: W-8772 Peshawar loaded with 18,000 imported bullets worth Rs2.7million on Wednesday at the Haji Camp Adda at Peshawar.
The Customs House Peshawar issued a statement stating that Inspector Bashir Ahmad Khan along with other Customs Police on-duty Sepoys Miya Muhammad Irfan and Adil Nawaz in a vehicle AA-4409 were patrolling on Ring Road when a suspicious Suzuki pickup was sighted coming from Chugalpura side.
The Suzuki pickup was signaled to stop but the driver sped up the vehicle. The Customs Mobile Squad started chasing the pickup.
After reaching the Haji Camp, the Suzuki stopped on a side of the GT Road and the driver fled the scene. The customs officials took into possession the vehicle and bullets.
The vehicle has been kept in the office of the Customs Mobile Squad Chamkani Morr Peshawar and an FIR No 88/2017 has been submitted to Collector Customs Gul Rahman under Customs Act-1969 involving Section 161. The vehicle impounded is worth Rs0.05million in the standard market.
It has been eighty eighth (88) FIR submitted to the Collector Customs in the current year regarding the seizures of contraband items which add powers to the capacity building procedure for departmental development.
