LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has extended physical remand of a suspect for one day and handed him over to the investigation team of customs on charges of cloth smuggling.
Earlier, the accused was on physical remand for three days and he was in custody of customs for investigation.
According to details available to Customs Today, Khursheed Ahmad was arrested by the customs team. After arresting the accused, the Customs I&I started investigation against him and got his physical remand. The Customs Intelligence team also recovered a huge quantity of foreign made smuggled cloth and other goods from his possession. The Customs intelligence told the court that accused persons were involved in smuggling of cloth from India to Shadman market. The market value of the smuggled cloth is Rs 6.6 million. They had caused a huge loss to national kitty in the wake of taxes and duties.
On Thursday customs team presented him before the customs court and asked for their physical remand to dig out network behind this smuggling mafia. Three days remand was approved by the court which is now extended now for one day.
After completion of physical remand judge of the customs court Tahir Sabir has directed the investigation team to present him again for further proceeding.
