LAHORE: The special federal court of customs taxation and anti smuggling has approved a 14 days judicial remand of the accused who was arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on charges of smuggling powder milk by showing it as plastic raw material.
According to sources the accused Zahid Rasheed was nabbed by the customs intelligence while he was trying to smuggle a huge quantity of powder milk of different brands. Customs intelligence on a tip-off intercepted a truck in suburbs of Lahore and found it loaded with international branded powder milk. After that customs intelligence on base of investigation raided at a warehouse and found a huge quantity of powder milk. Customs teams found 9349 bags of powder milk of different brands. Weight of the recovered powder was 232,000 kilo grams.
The seized milk is said to be worth Rs70 million.
A source said that smuggled milk is of American, Turkish, Holland, Korean and Indian origin and was smuggled by different routs especially from Afghanistan.
A team of customs investigation on Monday presented the accused Zahid Rasheed before the court of Ch. Aqal Hussain special judge in the court of customs taxation and anti smuggling and asked for remand of five days to complete investigation from the accused. After listening arguments from both sides the customs court handed over the accused to investigation team for two days.
On second hearing, on Wednesday, the accused was presented before the court of Ch Aqal Hussain and investigation team asked for more two weeks trail that the court has approved for two more days.
