LAHORE: The Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has granted the post-arrest bail to an accused, Muhammad Ali, in a cloth smuggling case.
Muhammad Ali was arrested by the Customs Intelligence from Lahore during a raid following the recovery of smuggled cloth of different brands from a warehouse owned by him. The value of the confiscated cloth was estimated at Rs 2 million. The recovered cloth was of Chinese, Korean and Indian origin.
During the early investigation, it was revealed that Ali was involved in this business since long time and had brought a huge loss to national kitty in the wake of duty and taxes.
Earlier, Muhammad Ali was produced before the Customs Court and was sent to jail after completion of physical remand.
