LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has disposed of the bail pleas of two accused in cloth smuggling. They have been on judicial remand for 14 days.
According to details available to Customs Today, two accused Rehmat Ali and Nasir Khan were apprehended by the customs intelligence. After arresting the accused, Pakistan customs intelligence started investigation against them and got their physical remand as well for this purpose. The customs intelligence had also recovered a huge quantity of foreign made smuggled cloths and related goods from their possession. The customs intelligence has told the court that accused were involved in smuggling of cloths from Afghanistan into Lahore and Faisalabad via different routes. They had caused the national kitty a big loss following taxes and duties. They have been involved in smuggling for a long time.
The value of the recovered cloths is Rs8.3million, customs investigation told the court.
The customs investigation team presented them before the customs court and asked for their physical remand to dig out network behind this smuggling mafia. After the completion of physical remand again, they were produced before the court from where the court sent them to jail on judicial remand.
Now the Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has disposed of their bail and sent them to jail for further 14 days.
