LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling adjourned the hearing of mobile-phones smuggling case. Earlier, the court had approved the extension in judicial remand of an accused who was arrested by the customs authorities from the Allama Iqbal International Airport while smuggling cell-phones from China to Lahore.
The Investigation and Prosecution (I&P) team of Customs Lahore had presented the accused, Naveed Bhatti, before the special court and asked for his physical remand for five days to investigate more smuggling. After the completion of physical remand, the court sent him to jail for judicial trial which is extended again for 14 days.
As per sources of Customs Today, Naveed Bhatti was arrested by the Customs Preventive when they seized 170 android mobile phones of assorted types from his luggage at the Lahore airport. The total value of the mobile-phones has been estimated at Rs05million.
It is pertinent to mention here that due to transfer of Chaudhary Muhammad Khan, numbers of cases are getting late for hearing.
