KARACHI: Taking grave exception to the failure of the Federal Investigation Agency’s investigation officer to submit a challan in a weapons smuggling case, the Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling gave him the last warning to submit the challan.
Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi became furious when the counsel for FIA submitted application on behalf of the investigation officer, seeking adjournment of the case. He remarked that the investigation officer is dilly-dallying to submit the challan despite the high court’s direction for disposal of the case in four months.
While adjourning the hearing till October 9, the court ordered issuance of a show-cause notice to the IO over his absence in the court. During previous hearing, the court given him last chance to submit the challan within 15 days.
According to the FIA officials, several parts of 9mm were recovered from the personal baggage of Mumtazuddin at Jinnah International Airport on August 21, 2014. During interrogation, he confessed that he used to smuggle unassembled parts of weapons for a NADRA official Col (r) Hafeez. Subsequently, an FIR was registered against him and his two accomplices.
