KARACHI: Custom (Taxation & Anti-smuggling) Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi directed the investigation officers to submit a progress report over the frozen moveable and immoveable properties of absconder named Muhammad Naeem Qureshi S/o Muhammad Rustam declared Proclaimed Offender in 32 different cases of mis-declaration and tax evasion causing losses to national exchequer of billions of repress.
During the hearing, investigation officers Qasim Ali Alvi, Abdul Rasheed, Muhammad Sadique, Rana Gulzar, Akmal Hashmi and Syed Adnan Kafeel submitted that above named accused has not been arrested yet therefore court direct the investigation officers to submit a progress report on the next date of hearing.
On the last date of hearing, investigation officers had submitted the report of the proceedings against him under Section 87 (proclamation for person absconding) and 88 (attachment of property of person absconding) of the criminal procedure code.
While the court issued time and again non-bailable warrant for him but police failed to get the warrant implemented. At a previous hearing, the court asked the investigation officer to initiate the proceedings of proclamation and attachment of property.
It is pertinent to mention here that above named accused was involved in 32 cases, most of them were registered in 2008. Almost the said accused had been charge-sheeted under Section 512 (record of evidence in absence of accused) of the criminal procedure code and shown as absconder in the police investigation reports.
