LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs taxation and Anti Smuggling has issued three days physical remand of the accused in smuggling of Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) film from Afghanistan to Faisalabad.
According to details available to Customs today a person, who was identified as Mubarak Sheikh arrested by the Customs authorities of Faisalabad.He was caught red handed by the customs intelligence when he was trying to smuggle BOPP film in Faisalabad.
As per details, an accused Mubarak Sheikh son of Shamas ul Qamar was involved in smuggling of BOPP film. Customs Faisalabad on intelligence information raided at his warehouse and recovered two trucks loaded with smuggled items. Warehouse was also owned by Mubarak Sheikh.Customs auhtoirties asked him to show legal evidences of the BOPP film but he failed to produce the same. Customs authorities arrested him on the spot and registered a case against him under section 2 (2), 16, 18, 132 A, 156 89 and 178 of Customs Act of Pakistan 1969. FIR number 2/2015 has registered against the accused.
Worth of the smuggled material is Rs 4.5 million in national market. Now the special court of Chaudary Ameer Muhammad Khan has sent accused in custody of Customs Faisalabad for physical remand for further investigation.
