LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling adjourned the hearing of mobile phone smuggling case.
Earlier, the court had approved the extension in judicial remand of an accused arrested by the customs authorities from the Allama Iqbal International airport while smuggling 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 for five days to investigate further regarding the smuggling. After the completion of physical remand, the court sent him to jail for judicial trial which was extended again for 14 days.
As per sources of Customs Today, Naveed Bhatti was arrested by the Customs Preventive when they seized 170 assorted android mobile phones from his luggage at Lahore airport.
On suspicion, the customs authorities intercepted accused, Naveed Bhatti, while he was using green channel.
The mobile phones were hidden in the bottles of water which were brought from Saudi Arabia. The sources said the total value of mobile phones has been appraised Rs05million. The customs authorities registered a case against him and further prosecution is still underway.
It is pertinent to mention here that due to transfer of Chaudary Hameed Muhammad Khan, a number of cases are getting late for hearing.
