KARACHI: The Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi dismissed after arrest bail of suspect manager admin namely Muhammad Ammad son of Shahid Zubair who was booked in a case of attempting to smuggled more than 78,0000 assorted mobile phones in the garb of LED Lights (Bulbs).
During the hearing, suspect appeared before the court along with his counsel who moved petition for after arrest bail and argued that his client is innocent and was been falsely implicated in this case, therefore court may grant his bail, however, counsel for the customs department opposed and stated that prosecution has concrete evidences, therefore, court may reject his bail. After their arguments, court rejected his bail and sent him back to jail.
Earlier, investigation officer of Intelligence and investigation-BFR had produced above mentioned suspect before the court and informed the court that on a credible information, a team of Intelligence and Investigation-FBR raided at Bungalow no 107/1 Lane 10, Kheyaban-Rahan DHA Karachi and during the search recovered 78,160 foreign origin mobile phones from 3908 cartons and arrested above mentioned suspect who introduced himself as admin manager of M/s Digicom Trading Pvt Ltd.
He further informed the court that after formalities officials of the Intelligence and Investigation-BFR seized mobile phones and shifted at investigation office and notice under section 171 also issued to the M/S Digicom Trading Company.
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) (14A) (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.
