KARACHI: The Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling on Wednesday summoned the Karachi Central Jail’s superintendent over his failure to conduct the medical tests of ailing suspect and submit medical reports.
Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi was hearing the cases pertaining to pilferage of the US Army reverse cargo.
At the outset, the counsel for suspect Muhammad Umar told the judge that despite court orders medical tests of his client were not conducted. Therefore, the court summoned the superintendent of Karachi Central Jail to explain why the court’s orders were not complied with.
According to the prosecution, Directorate General of Transit Trade had lodged two FIRs pertaining to pilferage of US Army reverse cargo in 22 containers during their transit from Torkham to Karachi port. The cargo was declared to contain power generators with transformer and equipment for transit to Karachi port for export to Dubai. When the containers were examined physically at Karachi port they were found empty.
During course of examination, shipper and custom seals were found intact. However, the cargo declared in the invoice and packing list was not found in the containers.
Subsequently two FIRs were registered against bonded carrier M/s. Port Connection (Pvt) Ltd and the authorized agents M/s Peerzada Service International, M/s Ghani’s International and M/s Multitrans Logistics (Pvt) Ltd.
