SHC bars Excise, Narcotics Dept from investigating drug cases
July 17, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department has been restricted from registering, investigating, and prosecuting cases of narcotics in the light of orders of the Sindh High Court.
The Sindh High Court, after heairng a criminal appeal, declared on June 19, 2021 registration, investigation and prosecution by the Excise Police under the Anti-Narcotics Act as illegal, and ordered the department to hand over them to area police stations for further proceedings.
Following the court orders, the Director General Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control directed the directors of all divisional headquarters to hand over the record to the Sindh Police. He also barred them from registering any new case under the Act. Previously, the cases related to narcotics were being registered, subsequently investigated and prosecuted by the department by Sindh Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Dep
SHC bars Excise, Narcotics Dept from investigating drug cases
July 17, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department has been restricted from registering, investigating, and prosecuting cases of narcotics in the light of orders of the Sindh High Court.
The Sindh High Court, after heairng a criminal appeal, declared on June 19, 2021 registration, investigation and prosecution by the Excise Police under the Anti-Narcotics Act as illegal, and ordered the department to hand over them to area police stations for further proceedings. Following the court orders, the Director General Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control directed the directors of all divisional headquarters to hand over the record to the Sindh Police. He also barred them from registering any new case under the Act.
National
May 3, 2021
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to exempt doctors from the professional tax this year in recognition of their unprecedented services as forefront warrior in Covid-19 pandemic.
Provincial Health Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra in a statement said that he has talked to Chief Minister who has approved that government will give an exemption to doctors from professional tax this year, 2020-21. “I have intimated Director General Excise of the decision. This is the least we can do,” he said.
He said that while both in the media and amongst our political opponents, there is a tendency to only criticise the health community for its mistakes, we have to recognize the sacrifices that the health community has made and how they have absorbed a patient load 6 times greater than the first wave. “We are proud of the work of our health community,” he said.
Bogus documents: Registration of thousands of vehicles suspended
More than 4,000 commercial vehicles registered on fake Army auction vouchers
LAHORE:
The Excise Department has suspended the registration of thousands of commercial vehicles. In total, the registration of 4,119 vehicles, which were apparently registered on bogus Army auction vouchers, has been suspended.
The department suspects more than 7,000 such vehicles were registered on counterfeit documents. The matter, which is now being seen as the biggest scandal related to the registration of used, smuggled and stolen vehicles, has jolted the excise department. These vehicles, one insider said, were being registered for several years by a group of officials within the Punjab Excise and Taxation department with the help of private individuals.