KARACHI: Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi on Friday rejected the bail petition of a suspect, Sikandar Mirza, proprietor of M/s Realex International, who was booked in a duties and taxes evasion case of Rs 1.57 million. The suspect was arrested after rejection of the bail application.
During the hearing, the suspect moved pre-arrest bail. Mirza’s counsel argued that his client was innocent and was falsely implicated in this case, who was ready to face trail, however, he had apprehension of arrest, therefore, court might grant him bail till final judgment in this case. However, counsel for the Customs Department argued that the prosecution had concrete evidence against the suspect, therefore, the court might reject his bail.
After hearing the arguments, the court rejected his pre-arrest bail and officials of the Customs Department arrested him outside the court and shifted to customs jail.
According to the prosecution, above mentioned suspect and other importers namely Muhammad Ishaq son of Muhammad Naeem, owner of M/s Al-Sudia Enterprises, Syed Mubashir Ali Qadri son of Muhammad Ali, General Manager M/s Realex International in active connivance with their clearing agents have mid-declared C&F value of the imported goods and submitted fake and fabricated import invoices to evade legitimate amount of government in the tune of Rs15,717,601.
Case was registered against them for violation of under section 2 (s) 32A, and 79 of Customs Act 1969 punishable under clauses 1, 8 (1) 14 A and 46 of section 156 (1) of the Customs Act, 1969 read with allied laws.
