KARACHI: The Customs Taxation & Anti-Smuggling Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi has granted interim pre-arrest bail to accused namely Mehmood Ayaz son of Muhammad Shah, proprietor of M/s Ayan Enterprises who was allegedly involved in evasion of the duty and taxes to the tune of Rs1,043,368.
During the hearing, said accused appeared before the court along with his counsel and moved an application for pre-arrest bail, counsel argued that his client is innocent and was falsely implicated in this case, who is ready to face trail, however, he has apprehension of arrest, therefore, and court may grant his bail till final disposal of this case.
After his hearing, court granted his bail and observed in its order that, “Without touching the merits of the case, ad-interim pre-arrest bail is granted to accused Mehmood Ayaz subject to furnish surety in the sum of Rs2,00,000 each with P.R. bond in the like amount to the satisfaction of this court.
Court also directed accused to join investigation if and when required by the investigation officer and appear before the court on next date of hearing. Court also called the police papers and issued notice to special prosecutor for customs department.
According to the prosecution, case was registered against above mention accused and others in violation of section 2 (s) 32 (1) & (2) 32A, 79 (1) and 192 of the customs act, 1969 punishable under clauses 8, 14, 14A, 44, 45, 46, 186, 89 of section 156 (i) ibid, read with SRO 566 (1)/2005 dated 06/06/2005 and sub-section (1) of section 3 of import & export (control) act, 1950, further read with section 3 (3) of the Sales Tax Act 1990 and section of the Income Tax Ordinance 2000.
