LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has awarded one year imprisonment and imposed a penalty of Rs 2 million in a case of gold smuggling from Britain to Lahore.
Accused Shoaib Muneer was arrested by the customs authorities at Lahore airport while he was trying to smuggle huge quantity of gold which was hidden in the secret parts of his luggage. Worth of the recovered gold is Rs 16 million almost. He got bail from the court and arrested again after rejection of bail plea.
On other hand on Thursday numbers of cases were scheduled for hearing before the customs court which were rescheduled for new dates.
Due to strike after killing of a lawyer numbers of cases were disturbed in the court of customs taxation and anti smuggling. Cases of Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan and Lahore were scheduled for hearing on Friday. Cases of tax evasion, smuggling and some other cases were also scheduled on Friday thay were adjourned for new dates.
