LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has adjourned a hearing of two mobile phone smugglers for next Friday. Earlier, the court had approved the post-arrest bail pleas of the said accused.
Accused Abdul Waheed and Agha Wali had been apprehended by the customs intelligence authorities from The Mall Lahore. Earlier, the customs court had approved their post-arrest bail pleas and ordered their release. Bail pleas of the accused were approved by customs judge Shakeel Ahmad against the cash guarantee of Rs500000 each.
Earlier, the customs intelligence and investigation team had presented them before the customs court for getting their physical remand to investigate more.
Both accused Agha Wali and Abdul Waheed were supplying mobile phones to some traders of Hall Road which is the largest mobile phone market of Punjab.
They were held when the customs intelligence team intercepted them on The Mall and recovered 324 mobile phones of different brands. The value of the recovered mobile phones is more than Rs06million in the local market.
By smuggling these cell phones, accused caused the national treasury a huge loss.
The customs investigation team presented them before the court of a Special Judge of the Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling Shakeel Ahmad and asked for their physical remand for three days.
The customs had registered a case against the accused and launched an investigation as well after confiscating the cell phones that they were trying to smuggle. The customs authorities had registered a case against them under Pakistan Customs Act.
