LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling adjourned the hearing of mobile phone smuggling case.
Earlier, the court had approved extension in judicial remand of an accused who was arrested by the customs authorities from Allama Iqbal International airport while making an attempt to smuggle cell phones from China to Lahore.
The Investigation and Prosecution (I&P) team of Customs Lahore had presented the accused Naveed Bhatti before the special court and asked for his physical remand of five days to investigate further regarding smuggling. After completion of physical remand the court sent him to jail for judicial trial which is extended again for 14 days.
As per sources of Customs Today Naveed Bhatti was arrested by the Customs Preventive when they seized 170 android mobile phones of assorted types from his luggage at Lahore airport.
As per the sources, on suspicion, the customs authorities intercepted the accused Naveed Bhatti while he was using green channel.
The mobile phones were hidden in bottles of water which the passenger claimed that he brought that water from Saudi Arabia, it was added. The sources said that the total value of the mobile phones has been estimated at Rs.5 million.
Customs authorities after seizing the mobiles registered a case against him and further prosecution is still underway.
It is pertinent to mention here that due to transfer of Chaudary ameed Muhammad khan number of cases are getting late for hearing.
