SIALKOT: The Anti Smuggling Organization (ASO) Of Model Customs House Sialkot Zone-I has recovered 12 tons Indian origin cumin from two trucks.
Customs Collector Ahmed Reza Khan received information that two trucks loaded with Indian Origin cumin coming from Azad Jammu and Kashmir and going to Mandi Bahawaldin. The Collector Customs Intimated ASO Zone-I Incharge Assistant Collector Fahad Bashir Chouhary to take action against said loaded trucks. The ASO Incharge deputed Inspector Sheikh Ikram to impound trucks under the Anti Smuggling Campaign. The said Inspector along with his team members included constables Shafique, Arfan Ali and Luqman started the checking of vehicles at Mandi Bahawaldin road.
Meanwhile the ASO team intercepted two trucks which were loaded with Indian Origin Cumin. During the searching of the trucks the team found that they were loaded with twelve tons Indian origin cumin. The team seized the Indian cumin and arrested a truck driver named Sadaqat whereas a driver was decamped from the scene.
The nabbed driver told team that he has loaded this cumin from his truck stand at AJK and I don’t know who the owner of cumin is. The team registered a case and confiscated Cumin and trucks shifted in the compound of Customs House. The team will present nabbed driver before the court of Judicial Magistrate for his physical remand for further investigation.
Whereas the team will also send trucks and cumin to Laboratory for test.ASO Incharge and Assistant Collector Fahad Bashir Choudhary told Customs Today that our informer are alert 24 hours and they inform Collector in time so that the ASO curb smuggling under the Anti Smuggling Campaign. He told that ASO all zones are performance very well and they are making best cause to collect revenue and strengthen the national exchequer while the results of all zone are much better and fruitful to curb smuggling.
