KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued a notice to the customs prosecutor to file response to the bail confirmation pleas of a suspect in three cases pertaining to import of pharmaceutical raw material fraudulently.
A single bench of the SHC adjourned until January 14, 2016, the applications filed by suspect Muhammad Ali Chandna who moved the court seeking confirmation of his interim bails in three cases.
According to the details of the cases, Chandna of Pure Enterprises and his other accomplices have been booked for importing pharmaceutical raw material from China and India by mis-declaring the description of the goods.
Pakistan Customs’ AIB Branch of Appraisement (West), unearthed the scam last year in which it found that Chandna, Ziauddin of Chemi Zone and Rajab Ali of M/s Rajab had fraudulently imported pharmaceutical raw material by declaring them as Preservative ACJC-240-430 under SDO-222 under HS Code 3824.99.
