KARACHI: A suspect named Muhammad Ammad S/o Shahid Zubair, Manager Admin of M/s Digicom Private Ltd (Q Mobile) moved The Sindh High Court (SHC) against the dismissal of a bail announced by the customs court. He was booked in smuggling of more than 780000 assorted mobile phones in the garb of LED Lights (Bulbs).
During the hearing, suspect moved an application the dismissal of bail and submitted that he was falsely implicated in mobile smuggling case therefore court may grant him a bail.
It needs to mention here that the abovementioned suspect had appeared before the customs court along with his counsel who moved an application for post-arrest bail and argued that his client is innocent therefore court may grant him a bail. However counsel for the Customs Department opposed and stated that prosecution has concrete evidences so court should reject his bail.
After hearing their arguments, court had rejected his bail and sent him back to jail.
Earlier, investigation officer of the Intelligence and Investigation-BFR had produced the abovementioned suspect before the court and informed the court that, on a credible information, a team of the Intelligence and Investigation-FBR raided Bungalow No-107/1, Lane-10, Kheaban-Rahan, DHA, Karachi.
During a thorough search, team recovered 78160 foreign origin mobile phones from 3908 cartons and arrested the said suspect who introduced himself as Admin Manager of M/s Digicom Trading Private Ltd.
He further informed the court that, after formalities, officials of the Intelligence and Investigation-FBR seized mobile phones and shifted them to investigation office, and notice under Section 171 was also issued to the M/s Digicom Trading Company.
According to the prosecution, a case was registered for violation under Section 2 (s) 16, 32 (1) & (2) 32A, 79, 80, 157 and 178 of the Customs Act-1969 read with import policy order 2016 punishable under Section 156 (1) (8) (89) (9) (9) (14) (14A) (43) (44) (45) & 156 (2) ibid read with Section 3, 6, 7A, 33, 34 of the Sales Tax Act-1990, further read with Section 148 of the Income Tax Ordinance 2001.
