Indore railway station has become a hotspot for the smuggling of goods as the courier service companies are transporting many goods which come under the jurisdiction of commercial tax department and for which the businessmen has to pay tax to the government but the courier companies transport this goods in packed box which makes it difficult to identify the goods in the boxes.
The latest case is when the commercial tax department received information that mobile phones worth `1 crore is lying in boxes at Indore railway station which came to Indore by train and the owner of the goods was sending it to different parts of Madhya Pradesh.
Sources say that these mobile phones were brought to Indore and were to be supplied in the local market of Indore. In Indore in many goods train the SlR coaches are given on contract to private persons. The businessmen transport many goods which come under the commercial tax jurisdiction and for these goods the businessmen have to pay tax to the government. These businessmen with the help of courier companies transport their goods from Delhi Mumbai and other metro cities of the country through this railway coaches and save the commercial tax. The goods are unloaded at the Indore railway station and from there it is routed to the concerned parties in Indore. Sources said that mobile phones, Chinese items and dry fruits are mostly transported in this railway coaches. While booking these goods also the actual content is not mentioned.