KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday issued notices to customs authorities and deputy attorney general on a bail petition filed by suspects namely Muhammad Ammad, manager administration of M/s Digicom (Private) Limited (Q-Mobile), and Chief Financial Officer Babar Sultan. Both were booked for attempting to smuggle more than 78,000 mobile phones in the garb of LED lights.
During the hearing, suspects moved bail petitions for after arrest bail and submitted that they were falsely implicated in mobile smuggling case, therefore, the court may grant them bail.
It needs to be pertained here that the suspects had moved bail petitions before customs court and argued that they were innocent and were been falsely implicated in this case, therefore, the court may grant them bail. However, counsel for the customs department opposed petitions, stating that the prosecution had concrete evidences, therefore, the court may rejected their bail. After the arguments, the court had rejected their bail.
Earlier, investigation officer of Intelligence and investigation-FBR had produced the above mentioned suspects before the court and informed the court that on a credible information, a team of Intelligence and Investigation-BFR raided at Bungalow no 107/1 lane 10, Kheyaban-Rahan DHA Karachi and during the search recovered 78,160 foreign origin mobile phones from 3908 cartons and arrested above mentioned suspect who introduced himself as admin manager of M/s Digicom Trading Private Limited.
He further informed the court that after formalities officials of the Intelligence and Investigation-FBR seized mobile phones and shifted at investigation office and notice under section 171 also issued to the M/s Digicom Trading Company.
According to the prosecution was registered for violation of under section 2 (s) 16, 32 (1) & (2) 32-A, 79, 80, 157 and 178 of the customs act, 1969 read with import policy order 2016 punishable under section 156 (1) (8) (89) (9) (9) (14) (14A) (43) (44) (45) & 156 (2) ibid read with section 3, 6, 7A, 33, 34 of the Sales Tax Act, 1990, further read with section 148 of the Income Tax Ordinance 2001.
