Ludhiana customs seizes 29.84 lakh cigarettes worth Rs 3.08 crore
LUDHIANA: In a major anti-smuggling action customs commissionerate Ludhiana has seized 29.84 lakh sticks of cigarettes worth several crores which were being imported illegally under the garb of dry dates.
As per the declaration made by the importer the containers were said to have been containing only 1120 bags of dry dates but in actual there were lesser bags of dry dates than declared in the cargo and rest of the space was used to conceal huge quantity of cigarettes.
Department has booked a case against the importer and further probe is underway. The action was undertaken by customs officials at Inland Container Depot (ICD) CONCOR located in Dhandari Kalan and the arrest of some persons seems likely in this case.
Giving more information, Arvinder Singh Ranga, commissioner of customs Ludhiana said, “A Ludhiana based firm imported two containers from Dubai which were declared to have been containing 1120 bags of dry dates. Company through its customs house agent (CHA) filed bill of entry for this consignment on May 13 and in the documents submitted by the firm it was declared that there were 560 bags of dry dates in each of these two forty feet containers.
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