SIALKOT: Customs Anti Smuggling Organization (ASO) squad of Sialkot has seized the different smuggled goods including Indian clothes , sarhies, 250 cartons of foreign made different juices and electronics from different vehicles during a special checking near River Chenab Bridge here.
According to the senior officials of the Sialkot Customs Collectorate, the worth of these seized was stated to be Rs. 30 million. This special checking was conducted by the anti smuggling squad on the orders of Collector Customs Sialkot Ahmed Rauf, they added.
Anti Smuggling Squad Sialkot has also arrested three accused drivers of the dubious vehicles carrying these smuggled items and sent them behind the bars. The officials added that the further investigations were underway.
The special checking teams of the Excise and Taxation Department have seized and confiscated as many as 1299 illegal and unauthorized number plates of different vehicles during a special checking (general hold up)in Gujranwala Division’s all the six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahaud Din, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts here.
According to the senior E&T officials, these teams also checked more than 3000 different vehicles and challaned 207 vehicles for having no registration number plates , besides, impounding 35 other vehicles due to non payment of their pending token taxes , in this regard…#
Meanwhile, the special recovery teams of Gepco have disconnected the 881 electricity connections of the domestic, commercial and industrial consumers for not paying their prolonged pending arrears of Rs.29 million, during the ongoing special recovery campaign in Gujranwala Division’s all the six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahaud Din, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts here.
The senior Gepco officials told that the Gpeco teams have jazzed up the pace of the ongoing recovery campaign , as the surveillance teams have started the special checking of the electricity meters to detect the power pilferage, in any, by the consumers, in this regard.
The Gepco has also isshued teh separate recovery notices to the thousands of the other defaulters , advising them to pay their arrears at earliest , besides, issuing them warning of disconnection of their electricity bills in case of the non-payment of their prolonged pending outstanding dues as well.
