KARACHI: Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi has postponed to frame charge against a suspect, Abdul Rauf Khan, till May 17, 2017. The suspect was booked while attempting to smuggle six slabs of gold weighting 60 tolas from Dubai to Karachi.
A case was fixed for hearing, but due to absence of the accused counsel, the court adjourned the hearing for May 17, 2017.
According to the prosecution, on January 1, 2017, the staff of the customs department intercepted Abdul Rauf Khan at Jinnah International Airport and recovered six slabs each weighting 10 tolas from his bags.
During the search, the accused was asked to produce legal documents of the goods, however, he failed to produce any lawful documents, therefore, after the formalities the accused and gold were taken into custody and an FIR was lodged by Masood A Khan, Senior Preventive Officer Customs House Karachi against him. Masood requested the court to send the accused on physical remand for further investigations.
It needs to be pertained here that above named accused is son of Ammanullah Khan Niazi, former Jail Superintendent Central Karachi.
According to the prosecution, the case was registered under section 2 (s) and 16 of customs act 1969, punishable under clauses (8) (9) of section 156 ibid.
