The container had goods like sports shoes of leading brands, earphones and button cells, among other things, valued at over Rs 1 crore.
LUDHIANA: The directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI), Ludhiana zonal unit, and its regional unit of Amritsar seized a 40-foot container that was declared to be containing mobile back covers worth Rs 15 lakh.
Instead, the container had other goods like sports shoes of leading brands, earphones and button cells, among other things, valued at over Rs 1 crore.
A Ludhiana-based firm had imported the container and it had arrived at an inland container depot near Kila Raipur.
Highly-placed sources in the department said on a tip-off, a team of the department, under the leadership of additional director general Nitin Saini, was tracking this container for the past two months after it departed from China.