LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has rejected the post arrest bail plea of an accused who is on a 14-day judicial remand.
The accused was arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on the charge of smuggling powder milk by showing it as plastic raw material.
Accused Zahid Rasheed was booked by the customs intelligence while he was trying to smuggle a huge quantity of powder milk of different brands. Customs intelligence on secret information intercepted a truck in the suburbs of Lahore city and found it loaded with international branded powder milk. The customs intelligence raided a warehouse and found a huge quantity of powder milk. The customs team found 9349 bags of powder milk of different brands. The weight of the recovered powder was 232,000 kilograms.
The worth of the recovered powder milk is Rs70.00million.
The milk is made of America, Turkey, Holland, Korea and India. All the milk was smuggled from these countries by different routes, especially from Afghanistan.
A team of customs investigation presented the accused before the court of Ch Aqal Hussain and asked for remand of five days to complete investigation from the accused. After listening arguments from both sides, the customs court handed over the accused to investigation team for two days. Again on last Wednesday, he was produced before the court of Ch Aqal Hussain and asked for two more days which was approved. Now the court has sent him to jail for judicial trial.
The customs investigation and prosecution team presented him before the judge of the customs court on Tuesday and asked for his judicial remand which the court has approved for 14 days.
On Tuesday, his post-arrest bail plea was scheduled for hearing which was rejected by the court.
The customs authorities had registered a case against him under Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
