Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 14: State Taxes Department seized goods worth Rs 1 crore approximately from Railway Station Jammu being shipped to the State from Delhi through railway bogies without proper documents.
The whole exercise has been conducted under the overall supervision of Commissi-oner State Taxes PK Bhat, Additional Commissioner, State Taxes (Administration & Enforcement), Jammu, Mohammad Shahid Saleem and Deputy Commissioner, State Taxes, Enforcement (Central), Jammu Rakesh Magotra.
The team included State Taxes Officers Arvind Sawhney, Neeraj Sharma, Mohit Raina, Mohammad Raiyaz, Raj Kumar Badgal, Suraj Parkash, Narinder Singh Anthal, Ajit Kumar, Deepali Khanna and Inspectors Satish Koul, Sameer Ahmed, Kuldip Bhat, Deepak Dranch, Amit Jain, Manpreet Singh, Parmjeet Singh, Raj Martand, Sukrit Gorkha, Jagandeep Singh, Wasim Choudhary and Sandeep Saraf.
The Railway Authorities at Jammu lent full cooperation to the State Tax enforcement team to seize goods transshipped illegally through railway lease bogies. This is for the first time in the history of State Taxes Department that such a huge quantity of goods have been seized and are undergoing scrutiny. Actual value of the goods shall be ascertained after the scrutiny is over.
The inspection cum seizure of goods started yesterday and continued till today evening.
More than 300 nags of various commodities were seized and are put to scrutiny. The action has been initiated by the State Taxes Department sequel to launch of a full-fledged enquiry into the transshipment of taxable commodities illegally through railway bogies in contravention to the GST Rules.
The department has also issued notice to various railway bogie leaseholders including, SP Clearing & Forwarding, New Delhi, Pardeep, New Delhi, Xtra Freight Forwarders, Delhi, On Dot Courier & Cargo Service, New Delhi, Ravinder Verma, Delhi Suriya Kumar Pandey, Delhi, Fast Track Courier and Cargo Private Limited, Kishore Shinde and S.K. Rail Parcel Service Private Limited asking them to furnish the information viz., HSN Wise summary of Goods transported/booked for transportation for the period July, 2017 to January, 2019, Individual/dealer wise consignments booked, Ledger in respect of supply of services provided for the said period and account of lease/rent paid to the railways during the period.
The State Tax Department has also written a communication to Chief Parcel Supervisor of Jammu/ Udhampur/ Katra/ Samba and Kathua railway stations to release goods received through railway lease bogies/parcel bookings only after checking GST invoices and e-way bills as required under GST Rules.
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