Seizure of 100 Bags of Betelnuts at Siliguri

[Commissioner of Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax, Siliguri, Incident Report dated 16^th November 2011]

Acting on a specific information the officers of Naxalbari Customs D.P.U. alongwith the officers of Bagdogra P.U., Panitanki P.U., Siliguri D.P.U. & Naxalbari Police Station recovered a truck bearing Regn. No. WB-71A/ 0423 loaded with 100 (one hundred) bags weighing 8,385 Kgs. of Betelnuts believed to be of 3rd country origin from a godown premises adjacent to M/s. Bolbom Shankar Service Station, Naxalbari (Satbhaiya) area. On enquiry, Sri Liladhar Goyal, authorized representative of the said godown premises produced a document “Zimmanama” of Phasidewa Police Station issued with reference to G.D.E. No. 263/10 dated 02.12.10. On reasonable belief that the said betelnuts were illicitly imported through the adjoining border area of Nepal for onward transportation for sale of the same in the grey market, the goods so recovered alongwith the said carrier vehicle were seized vide Seizure case No. 32/Imp/Cl/NXB/DPU/11-12 dated 06.11.2011 valued at Rs. 9,70,100/- after observing all necessary seizure formalities.

The case is under investigation.