FAISALABAD: Police claimed to have arrested two alleged robbers who suffered injuries in an ‘encounter’ on Saturday night.

Officials said a team of the Gulfishan Colony police post signalled two motorcyclists to stop near a petrol pump on Jhang Road. Seeing police, they said, the suspects tried to evade the patrol under the cover of firing on police.

Police retaliated and called out an Elite force team that also took part in the encounter, they said, adding that two robbers suffered bullet injuries and were arrested. Police said 16 cases of robbery had been registered against Shiraz Ahmad and nine against Zaheer Abbas.

Police said the robbers were also wanted in 15 recent incidents of robberies that took place in the remit of Faisalabad. They were also involved in a robbery-cum-murder incident of Gujranwala. Other gang members Waseem and Usman were also wanted to police and raids were being conducted to apprehend them.

TAX EVASION: The Directorate of Intelligence & Investigation (Inland Revenue) of the Faisalabad Board of Revenue raided two business premises and seized record on the charge of sales tax evasion.

The units -- M/s Ali Raza Haider & Brother Engineering Works and M/s Muhammad Ashraf Engineering Works -- have been engaged in manufacture and supply of machinery used in stone crushing.

“Although these units have been making taxable supplies as defined under section 2(41) of the Sales Tax Act, 1990, they were not registered under the Sales Tax Act, 1990. Therefore, these units have been violating the provisions of the sales tax acts of 1990 and 2006,” an official said.

He said making taxable supplies without getting sales tax registration was a tax fraud under the provisions of section 2(37) of the Sales Tax Act, 1990.

The records seized from the spots include sales/purchase ledgers of manufactured machinery, computers and laptops containing digital data, bank record and bill books. During preliminary scrutiny of the records, he said, it was revealed that considerable sales tax had been evaded by both units.

Published in Dawn, January 27th, 2020