Custom department seizes more than 7900000 cigarettes having value of more than Rs.15 Crore

The CBIC chairman in his recent GST Newsletter said that “On the Anti-Evasion side, on the basis of a specific input from the National Customs Targeting Centre, officers of Delhi Customs Preventive Commissionerate intercepted a consignment declared as Photocopy Paper at ICD Palwal, Haryana. Examination of the consignment revealed that except the front row, the consignment contained more than 79,00,000 cigarettes having an approximate value in excess of Rs.15 Crore. Kudos to the officers for a fantastic detection.”