KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has disposed of an application for urgent hearing due to non-appearance of applicant’s counsel. The petition was filed by Muhammad Kashif Hussain son of Muhammad Hussain against his non-bailable arrest warrant issued by Customs court. The suspect is allegedly involved in a financial scam.
A single Judge bench of the SHC comprising Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro heard the case. During the hearing, the applicant was present, however his counsel was absent, therefore, the court disposed of the application as the urgent application for August 25, 2016.
It needs to be mentioned here that when applicant had approached the SHC for suspension order of subordinate court’s NBW than SHC had suspended the impugned order but on June 13,2016 due to absent of applicant / accused, court had recalled its own order dated March 14,2016 in which court had suspended the Non-bailable warrant of arrest issued by Custom court dated Nov 14,2014. Now, applicant wants to recall SHC’s last order.
Earlier applicant / accused stated that he reached back to Karachi from Malaysia and he came to know that that trail court has issued NBW against the applicant because of his non appearance, counsel argued that he wants to face trail but due to issued of NBW, he has apprehension of arrest. therefore SHC may set aside impugned NBW issued by trail court.
According to the prosecution, during the reconciliation/ liquidation of the data of pending mate receipts (MRs) of exports, it was observed that 78 goods declaration export of leather jackets, a rebate able item, filed in the name of customs clearing agent M/s Al Maqsit Enterprises on behalf of exporters M/s Malik Enterprises, Zoha Apparel, Z A Corporation, Skin Art Leather and Slav One Enterprises were not available physically. Since export against these goods declaration involved substantial amount of rebate, it was therefore apprehended that a major fiscal fraud was being committed.
