LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has sent three accused to jail on judicial remand of 14 days. The customs investigation and prosecution team presented them before the court after the completion of two-day physical remand. They were arrested in the smuggling of a large quantity of skimmed milk.
The Special Federal Court approved the judicial remand in a case of Rs9million skimmed milk smuggling. Accused Aneel Ahmad, Muhammad Imran and Abdul Ghaffar were presented before the court for their judicial custody that the court had granted.
Earlier, the ASO seized the non-duty-paid skimmed milk which was being smuggled for manufacturing of ice-cream.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Faiz Ahmad received a tip-off that some smugglers were trying to smuggle a huge quantity of non-duty-paid Iranian origin skimmed milk through a Hino truck. He immediately constituted a raiding team comprising Deputy Collector Moazzam Raza, Superintendent Nasir Minhas, Inspectors Sajjad Bukhari, Abdur Rehman Butt, Gulzar Bhatti and Azam Wattoo.
The abovementioned team established a picket near Faizpur Interchange. The ASO team intercepted the truck which was coming from Quetta. The truck belonged to transporter Haji Nabi Bukhsh. On demand, the driver of the vehicle failed to produce any relevant legal documents regarding the import and transportation of skimmed milk.
The Customs ASO team seized the whole milk and, after registering a case, started further investigations.
After initial interrogation, the customs had apprehended three accused and presented them before the court for physical remand that had been approved by Customs Judge Tahir Sabir for two days. Now they have been sent to jail for a 14-day physical remand.
