LAHORE: Special federal court of customs taxation and anti-smuggling has remanded two accused to jail on a judicial remand of 14 days.
Two accused Rehmat Ali and Nasir Khan were apprehended by the customs intelligence. Customs intelligence had also recovered huge quantity of foreign made smuggled cloths and other goods from their possession.
Customs intelligence told the court that accused persons were involved in smuggling of cloths from Afghanistan to Lahore and Faisalabad via different routes. They had caused a huge loss to the national kitty in the wake of taxes and duties.
The total value of the impounded goods is Rs8.3million. Customs investigation team presented them before the customs court and asked for their physical remand to dig out the network behind this smuggling mafia. After the completion of physical remand again, they were produced before the court which remanded them to jail.
