KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has granted bail to a suspect, Babar Sultan, the Chief Finance Officer of M/s Digicom Pvt Ltd (Q Mobile) and directed him to appear before the trail court and join investigations. Sultan was booked for attempting to smuggle more than 78,000 assorted mobile phones in the garb of LED lights (bulbs).
It needs to be pertained here that petitioner for the suspect had moved the bail petition before the customs court and argued that his client was innocent and was falsely implicated in this case, therefore, the court may grant him bail. However, counsel for the Customs Department opposed the bail and stated that prosecution had concrete evidences, therefore, the court might reject his bail. After the arguments, the court had rejected his bail.
Earlier, investigation officer of Intelligence and Investigation had produced the suspect before the court and informed that a team of Intelligence and Investigation raided at Bungalow no 107/1 Lane 10, Kheyaban-e-Rahan DHA Karachi and recovered 78,160 foreign origin mobile phones and arrested the suspect who introduced himself as administration manager of M/S Digicom.
He further informed the court that officials of the Intelligence and Investigation seized mobile phones and shifted to investigation office and also issued notice to the M/s Digicom Trading Company under section 171.
According to the prosecution was registered for violation of 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.
