LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a post-arrest bail plea of the accused arrested in a mobile-smuggling case.
On Saturday, the said court heard the post-arrest bail plea of the accused. The customs lawyer opposed the plea and said the offense against the accused is heinous, so his bail plea should be rejected.
Judge of the court, Sabir Shakir, was not satisfied with the arguments of the defense counselor of the Pakistan customs. After hearing arguments of the accused party lawyers, customs court granted the bail against the surety of Rs10000 each and personal guarantee as well.
An accused Imran was held by the customs intelligence authorities from Lahore. The customs intelligence and investigation team had presented him before the customs court for getting his physical remand to investigate more on the issue. So he was sent to jail on judicial trial.
Accused Imran has been supplying these mobile phones to some traders of Hall Road and Hafeez Center.
The customs intelligence team intercepted the accused near Sherakot and recovered 2,500 mobile phones. The value of the recovered mobile phones is more than Rs6.3million in the local market.
The customs investigation team had presented the accused before the court of special judge of customs taxation and anti-smuggling, Tahir Sabir, in the last month and asked for their judicial remand.
The customs court sent him to jail on judicial remand of 14 days. He had been produced before the court after the completion of physical remand and now he has been sent to jail on judicial trial.
During a search of the luggage of the goods in a car, customs intelligence found mobile phones that he was trying to smuggle. The customs had registered a case against the accused and launched the investigation as well after confiscating the cell phones.
The customs authorities have registered a case against him under Pakistan Customs Act 1969.
