LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a 14-day judicial remand against two accused held in the mobiles-smuggling case.
An accused Abdul Waheed and Agha Wali were arrested by the customs intelligence authorities from the Mall of Lahore. The customs intelligence and investigation team had presented them before the customs court for getting their physical remand to investigate more on the issue.
Both accused were supplying these mobile phones to some traders of Hall Road which is the largest mobile phones market in Punjab.
Sources said the customs intelligence had recovered 324 mobile phones. The value of the recovered mobile phones is more than Rs6million in the local market.
The Customs Investigation team had presented them before the court of Special Judge of the Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling, Shakeel Ahmad, on Monday and asked for their physical remand for three days. The customs court handed them over to the customs investigation team for further investigation. After the completion of the remand, they were sent to jail on judicial trial.
The customs authorities have registered a case against them under Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
