LAHORE: The Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved judicial remand of a suspect who was arrested by the customs authorities at Allama Iqbal International Airport while making an attempt to smuggle cell phones from China to Lahore.
A team of Investigation and Prosecution presented the accused Naveed Bhatti before the special court after three days of physical remand where the court sent him to jail on a 14-day judicial remand.
Earlier, the special court on request of customs handed over the accused to investigation team for three days on physical remand.
Accused Naveed Bhatti was intercepted at arrival lounge when he was using green channel to clear his luggage. The officials recovered 170 android mobile phones of assorted types from his luggage and arrested him.
The mobile phones were hidden in bottles of water which the passenger claimed that he brought that water from Saudi Arabia. The sources said that the total value of the mobile phones has been estimated at Rs 5 million. The customs authorities confiscated the mobile phones has registered as case and started further investigation.
