A team of Sales Tax, Gwalior seized seven tankers filled with mustard oil on the Gormi-Porsa road in Bhind district. The trucks, which belonged to Baibhav oil mill of Morena were going to West Bengal.
Officials said that drivers of the tankers did not possess any valid documents of sales tax and kept them in Gormi police station.
An officer who participated in the raid disclosed that they had received information that 15 tankers of mustard oil of Baibhav oil mill were moving to West Bengal. The sales tax team consisting of Assistant Commissioner Anupama Sharma, Commercial Tax officer Pramod Sharma, Virendra Kaushal, Nitesh Bansal and Naveen Singh Dhurve caught the seven tankers on Gormi Porsa route at 7 am on Thursday.
When the officers asked the driver to produce related documents they could not produce even form 49. The officers said that the oil was being sent to West Bengal without paying tax. The sales team interrogated the drivers for 5 hours and checked record but they could not get the record. The team handed over seven tankers to Gormi police station in charge RS Bhagat.
On receipt of information the owner of Bhaibh oil mill stopped the eight tankers. Meanwhile, commercial tax officers said that mustered oil worth Rs 50 lakhs were seized. The commercial tax officer Gwalior Nitesh Bansal said that seven tankers of mustered oil were caught by the sales tax team on Gormi-Porsa road. The mustered oil was being sent to West Bengal. Its related is being checked.
Meanwhile, the police station in charge Gormi RS Bhagat also confirmed that the commercial tax team caught seven tankers of mustered oil and kept them in their police station.