LAHORE: The Court of Customs Taxation and anti-smuggling has extended the judicial remand of a suspect allegedly involved in smuggling of gold, diamond and precious watches, for another 14 days.
Earlier, the court had sent the accused to jail on 14-day judicial remand. In previous hearing, the Customs Investigation and Prosecution team of Customs Preventives had presented an investigation challan against the accused.
As per the detail, customs authorities at Lahore airport recovered smuggled diamonds, 2.5kg gold and eight watches of Rado brand worth Rs15 million from passengers, Rana Muhammad Rafique Farooq and his spouse Sara Adnan, who were travelling from Sharjah to Lahore.
After arresting them, the customs investigation team presented them before the court and got their physical remand for further interrogation. However, the hearing of the case has also been adjourned until next week.
