LAHORE: The Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti Smuggling sent three accused to jail on judicial remand of 14 days. Customs investigation and prosecution team produced them before the court. They were arrested in smuggling of huge quantity of skimmed milk.
According to details available to Customs Today the court approved fourteen days judicial of the accuses in a case of Rs 9 million skimmed milk smuggling. Accused namely Aneel Ahmad, Muhammad Imran and Abdul Ghaffar were presented before the court for their judicial custody that the court has approved.
Earlier ASO team during an intelligence base operation seized huge quantity of non-duty paid skimmed milk which was being smuggled for manufacturing of ice-cream.
Sources told Customs Today, that Collector Faiz Ahmad received credible information that some smugglers were trying to smuggle 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, Inspector Sajjad Bukhari, Abdur Rehman Butt, Gulzar Bhatti and Azam Wattoo. The above mentioned team established a check post near Faizpur Interchange.
The ASO team intercepted a Hino truck which was coming from Quetta belonged to transporter Haji Nabi Bukhsh. On demand the driver of the vehicle failed to produce any relevant legal documents regarding import and transportation of skimmed milk. After his failure Customs ASO team seized the whole milk and after registering a case started further investigations.
After initial interrogation customs arrested three accused and presented them before the court for physical remand that was approved by the custos judge Tahir Sabir for two days and after that they are being sent to jail.
