Excise dept foils smuggling bid

Investigation underway


Our Correspondent August 09, 2020

KARACHI:

A man was arrested and 10 kilogrammes of charas was confiscated from his possession by the Sindh Excise and Taxation Department at the Jacobabad Excise checkpost on Saturday.

Assistant excise and taxation officer Ziaul Islam Pathan and his team stopped a suspicious vehicle at the checkpost and discovered that the suspect, Fazlur Rehman, had been attempting to smuggle charas from Balochistan to Karachi.

The suspect was booked in a case and the vehicle was impounded, while an investigation is underway.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 9th, 2020.

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