KARACHI: Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi directed the investigation officer to arrest the absconding suspects namely Zeeshan Akhtar, Zeeshan Yousaf, Kashif Hussain and Muhammad Azam Hussain. The suspects were booked for attempting to smuggle assorted Q-Mobile phones and other goods in the garb of LED lights (bulbs).
During the hearing, investigation officer Bashir Bhutto appeared before the court and informed that the suspects were still absconders and the customs officials were trying their best to arrest them. He sought further time for compliance of the court order, therefore, the court re-issued their non-bailable arrest warrants and adjourned the matter.
According to the interim charge sheet, the Anti-Smuggling Organization Karachi raided Sadder Central Plaza, Karachi and found that one container bearing registration no-KKFU-72555703 loaded on a trawler noTLT-374 was parked there. A search was carried out accordingly in presence two musheers which revealed the presence of a huge quantity of mobile phones stuffed in the aforesaid container.
Court was informed that subsequently the said container loaded on the vehicle was brought at ASO/HQ, thorough search was conducted in the presence of said musheers, resultantly recovered 27200 Q-Mobile Phones, 35790 other assorted brands and models mobile phones, 531 Amazon Tablets which were smuggled by the suspect in the garb of LED Lights, tentative value of the smuggled goods is Rs284, 470,000 and suspect evaded the duty and taxes in the tune of Rs103,702,340 approximately, investigation officer further informed the court that no suspect was arrest yet, however, they are trying their best for arrest of them.
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) (14-A) (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.
