LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has sent two accused to jail on extension of judicial remand of 14 days.
According to Customs Today, two accused Rehmat Ali and Nasir Khan were arrested by the customs intelligence. Customs intelligence had also recovered a huge quantity of foreign made smuggled cloths and related goods from their possession. Customs intelligence has told the court that accused were involved in smuggling of cloths from Afghanistan into Lahore and Faisalabad via different routes.
They had caused a huge loss to national kitty in the forms of taxes and duties. The amount of the recovered cloths is Rs8.3million, customs investigation has told the court.
On Monday, jail officials presented them before the customs court that sent them to jail for further judicial trial.
Meanwhile on Monday, customs court adjourned 15 different cases. Pre-arrest bail pleas of three accused were also adjourned for new dates of next week. Pre-arrest bail plea of an accused Nadir Khan was puts off for next Monday as lawyer of the case could not satisfy the court. A case of mobile smuggling of Multan was also postponed for next Monday as the lawyer concerned was absent from the court.
