LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has disposed of a post-arrest bail of an accused held in mobile smuggling case.
According to details, an accused Agha Farukh was apprehended by the customs investigation authorities from Faisalabad after investigation from accused Tayab Manzoor who is on judicial remand now. Accused Agha Farukh is a facilitator of Tayab Manzoor in smuggling of mobile phones.
Earlier, the customs taxation and anti-smuggling court had approved a 14-day judicial remand of the accused held by the customs authorities from Faisalabad.
According to sources of Customs Today, accused Tayab Manzoo was booked by the customs preventive at the Faisalabad International Airport when he reached there from Bahrain. Accused Tayab was travelling by a flight of the Gulf Airways.
During a search, customs preventives recovered mobile phones from his luggage that he was trying to smuggle into Faisalabad.
The customs had registered a case against accused Tayab and launched an investigation as well after confiscating the cell phones. The value of the cell-phones was more than Rs05million.
A case was lodged by the customs authorities under the Pakistan Customs Act-1969.