HYDERABAD, April 29: The motor vehicle and crime branch of Sindh Excise and Taxation Department has launched a crackdown for the recovery of motor vehicle tax and snatched and stolen vehicles.

During the crackdown and raids, the department over the past three months, impounded 2,542 vehicles and recovered about Rs32 million as motor vehicle tax from tax evaders.

The department has also recovered 386 vehicles, including 119 cars, 141 motorcycles, 3 jeeps, 9 pick-ups, 24 busses, 17 coasters, 38 trucks, 17 wagons and 18 tractors.

Briefing the newsmen, an excise department spokesman said here on Sunday that these vehicles were either running without registration or had been snatched or stolen.

He said all these vehicles had been handed over to relevant police stations as case properties.

He said a list of these 368 vehicles was available at the Excise Motor Vehicle office, Akbar Chambers Saddar, Hyderabad. He has appealed to the people to visit the Excise office with relevant documents of their stolen or snatched vehicles.

He said the excise crime branch had also arrested 15 accused and recovered 15kgs of heroin, 82kgs of charas and thousands of litres of country made liquor and 201 bottles of foreign made liquor from their possession.