FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO), Sargodha, has seized foreign origin sofa cloth in different colours worth Rs 933,600 involving duty/taxes amounting to the tune of Rs 235,360.
Deputy Collector Muhammad Rizwan Khan received information that smuggled items were being supplied from Lahore to Sargodha on which he formed a team.
The ASO team reached the place pointed out by the informer and found that 17 rolls of cloth were laying on the side of the road in front of 786 Super Star Goods Forwarding Agency.
The team asked Tasawar Ahmad son of Hussain to produce documents regarding legal import of the items. He showed a receipt No 7687 issued by 786 Super Star Goods Forwarding Agency, Lahore. But he could not provide any documentary evidence of import on the spot. The officials seized the goods under the customs laws.
The manager was directed to inform the owner of the goods to produce documents of lawful import against the recovered cloth, besides registering a case against Muhammad Suleman son of Muhammad Ismail, Atif Shabaz and Sikandar.
The raiding party comprising Superintendent Chaudhary Sardar Muhammad, Inspector Bashir Ahmed, Anser Saleemi, Mehar Ameer Ali, Sepoys Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Iqbal, Hafiz Naseer Ahmad, Muhammad Shafqat Mehmood, Sardar Hussain and Muhammad Mansha foiled the smuggling bid.
