LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a 14-days judicial remand of accused Shaukat Ali in a case pertaining to smuggling of Iranian plastic raw material.
Earlier, he was in the custody of Customs Intelligence on judicial remand for judicial trial and prosecution.
According to details, Shaukat Ali was arrested when the Customs Intelligence raided a warehouse in Shahdra. During the raid, the Customs team has found huge quantity of polyethylene material which was smuggled from Iran. The Customs team seized all the smuggled material and arrested the owner of the material Shaukat Ali son of Miraj Din.
Customs authorities produced him before the court of Chaudary Ameer Muhammad Khan and asked for physical remand of the accused for three days as more investigation required from the accused.
On Monday he was again produced before the court where Customs investigation team presented more record of the case in the court. After hearing court decided to to send him to jail on further judicial remand.
Total worth of the smuggled items was Rs 1.9 million and weight was 10950 kilograms. A case was registered against Shaukat Ali under section 2(s), 16, 156,(1) and 178 of Pakistan Customs act 1969.
