KARACHI: Acting Judge of the Customs (Taxation & Anti-Smuggling) Court, Syed Arshad Noor Khan, extended the physical remand of the suspect, Asif Iqbal s/o Muhmmad Iqbal, and sent him back to customs department lockup. He was booked in a case of attempting to smuggle 181 contraband mobile phones from Dubai into Karachi.
The court also directed the Investigation Officer to produce him on the next date of hearing along with his progress report.
During the hearing, Investigation Officer produced him before the court and informed the it that during the search, staff of the Preventive, Model Customs Collectorate, intercepted abovementioned accused, coming from Dubai by Emirates Airlines Flight No: EK-602, and recovered 43 Samsung mobile phones, 26 Motorola, 73 LG, 29 HTC and 10 I-Phones valued Rs5.6million.
Investigation Officer added that after the formalities, said goods were seized and accused arrested and case registered in violation of section 2 (s), 16 and 139 of the Customs Act-1969 punishable under clauses (8) (9) ibid read with baggage rules 2006 notified by FBR vide SRO 666(1)/2006 dated 28/06/2006.
He has submitted that investigation has not been completed yet and prosecution needs further physical remand of said accused for concrete evidences. After his arguments, court sent him to customs department and directed the Investigation Officer to produce him on the next date of hearing along with a progress report.
