ISLAMABAD: Directorate General Customs intelligence and Investigation has seized non duty paid smuggled unregistered heavy motorcycle Kawasaki Ninja, worth Rs7,000,00.
According to sources special car cell received an information through informer that non duty paid smuggled Kawasaki Ninja Model 2010 (250CC) unregistered having chassis no. JLAEXMJ 18 ADA 67873 parked at the parking area, Commercial Area Bahria Town, Phase-vIII, Rawalpindi.
On tip off the staff of special car cell under the supervision superintendent Saeed Ahmed including Intelligence Officer Gul Nawaz and Sepoy’s reached the hinted place and found the Kawasaki Ninja heavy motorcycle at the parking area of commercial area.
Despite hectic efforts, nobody came forward to claim the ownership of motorcycle. Ultimately, after waiting more than two hours, the motorcycle was taken into custody in presence of the witnesses and was shifted to the HQs office Islamabad where the chassis of the subject motorcycle was examined and tailed with the record of import, Amnesty Scheme 2013 and auctioned vehicles available with the Directorate General Customs I&I Islamabad, but no record of the same chassis number was found existed in any data.
Special Car Cell has been seized the unregistered heavy motorcycle Kawasaki Ninja under section 168 of the Customs Act, 1969 for violation of sections 2(s) and 16 read with SRO 566 (1) /2005 and section 3 (1) of Imports and Exports (Control) Act, 1950 punishable under section 156 (1) 89 and 178 of the Customs Act, 1969.