LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has adjourned the hearing of an accused arrested from the Sialkot International Airport.
The accused, travelling from South Africa to Sialkot, was checked by the customs officials at the airport. The customs team, during a search of the luggage, found 30 costly mobile phones hidden in the baggage of one Muhammad Sarwar.
The customs team had apprehended the accused and presented him before the customs court for physical remand, but the customs judge denied the request and sent him to jail for judicial trial.
Muhammad Sarwar had also filed a petition for his post-arrest bail that had been also adjourned because of the unavailability of prosecutor of the court.
Meanwhile, the Customs Court adjourned the hearings of 16 cases relating to customs matters. During the hearings of most of the cases, the counsels for the accused persons requested the court to postpone the hearings of their respective cases for preparation of arguments on which the court did the hearings of cases for different dates.
According to the cause the list, three out of 16 cases were fixed for formal hearings filed against accused named Shehzad, Abdullah Tariq Fatmi and others. The pre-arrest bail pleas had been also scheduled for the day that the court had also adjourned for next hearing.
The court also adjourned the cases of narcotics, tax evasion, smuggling and customs matters. The cases from Faisalabad, Lahore, Gujranwala and Multan were also scheduled for hearings.
