LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti Smuggling has approved the post arrest bail pleas of two accused who were arrested in mobile smuggling case.
On Saturday the Special Federal Court heard the post arrest bail pleas of the accused. Customs lawyer opposes the plea of the accused and said before the court that offense against the accused is heinous so their bail plea should be rejected.
Special Judge of the Court Sabir Shakir was not satisfied on arguments of the defense consular of customs. After hearing arguments of the accused party lawyers of customs court granted them bail against surety of Rs100,00 each and personal guarantee as well.
According to details an accused Muhammad Imran and Irfan Ali were arrested by the customs intelligence authorities from Lahore. Customs Intelligence and Investigation team produced them before the customs court for getting their physical remand to investigate more on the issue. After that they were sent to jail for judicial trial.
Both of the accused Muhammad Imran and Irfan Ali were supplying these mobile phones to some traders of Hall Road and Hafeez Center which are the largest mobile phones markets in Lahore even in Punjab.
Customs Intelligence team intercepted them near Shera Kot and recovered a huge quantity of mobile phones of different brands. Sources said that customs intelligence has recovered 2500 mobile phones. Worth of the recovered mobile phones is more than Rs 6.3 million in local market. By smuggling these cell phones they have caused a huge loss to the national kitty in the wake of duty taxes.
Customs Investigation team produced them before the court of Special Judge of the Customs Taxation and Anti Smuggling Tahir Sabir in last month and asked for their judicial remand.
Customs Court send them to jail on judicial remand of 14 days. They were produced before the court after completion of physical remand and now they are sent to jail for judicial trial now.
