LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a 14-days judicial remand of accused Shaukat Ali in smuggling of Iranian plastic raw material.
Earlier, he was in the custody of Customs intelligence on a two-day physical remand for investigation.
According to details, Shaukat Ali was booked when the Customs Intelligence raided a warehouse in Shahdara area of Lahore.
During the raid, the Customs team found a huge quantity of polyethylene material which was smuggled from Iran. The Customs team seized all the smuggled material and arrested the owner of the material Shaukat Ali son of Miraj Din.
On Wednesday, the custom investigation and prosecution team produced him before the court of Chaudary Ameer Muhammad Khan and asked for physical remand of the accused for three days as more investigation required from the accused.
On Friday he was again produced before the court where Customs investigation team said that they have completed their investigation from the accused and now court can send him to jail for judicial trial. Customs court approved his judicial remand and sends him to jail.
Total worth of the smuggled items was Rs 1.9 million and weight was 10950 kilograms. A case was registered against Shaukat Ali under section 2(s), 16, 156,(1) and 178 of Pakistan Customs act 1969.
