KARACHI: Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi on Thursday approved interim pre-arrest bail of Zeeshan, son of Yousaf andKashif Hussain, son of Kazim Hussain, who were booked in a case of attempting to smuggled assorted (Q-Mobile) mobile phones and other goods in the garb of LED Lights (bulbs).
During the hearing, counsel for the applicants appeared before the court and moved bail petition and argued that his clients are innocent and were falsely implicated in this case, who is ready to face trail; however, they have apprehension of arrest. After hearing, the court granted their pre-arrest bail against the surety of Rs500,000
According to the interim charge-sheet, on a credible information, the anti-smuggling organization raided at Sadder Central Plaza, Karachi and found that one container no-KKFU-72555703 loaded on a trawler no TLT-374 was parked there, search was carried out accordingly in presence two musheers which revealed the presence of huge quantity of mobile phones stuffed in the aforesaid container.
The court was informed that subsequently the said container loaded on the vehicle was brought at ASO HQ and thorough search was conducted in the presence of said musheers, and recovered 27,200 QMobile phones, 35,790 other assorted brands and models mobile phones, 531 Amazon tablets which were smuggled by the suspect in the garb of LED Lights, tentative value of the smuggled goods is Rs284, 470,000 and suspect evaded the duty and taxes in the tune of Rs103,702,340 approximately, investigation officer further informed the court that no suspect was arrest yet, however, they are trying their best for arrest of them.
According to the prosecution was registered for violation of under section 2 (s) 16, 32 (1) & (2) 32A, 79, 80, 157 and 178 of the customs act, 1969 read with import policy order 2016 punishable under section 156 (1) (8) (89) (9) (9) (14) (14-A) (43) (44) (45) & 156 (2) ibid read with section 3, 6, 7A, 33, 34 of the sales tax act, 1990, further read with section 148 of the income tax ordinance 2001.
