KARACHI: The Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling on Wednesday summoned the investigation officer in a case pertaining to smuggling Iranian high speed diesel.
According to the prosecution, Pakistan Customs’ Anti-Smuggling Organization had seized 12,000 liters of smuggled Iranian high speed diesel stored in an oil tanker from Sukkur and arrested alleged smuggler Deedar Hussain on November 13.
During the hearing, Advocate Syed Zulifqar Shah, the counsel for the accused, told the court that Deedar is pleading guilty to the crime and throwing himself on the mercy of the court. Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi perused the case file and observed that different estimated amount of duty and taxes involved in the case were mentioned in the FIR and charge-sheet.
Therefore, the court summoned the investigation officer of the case to apprise it of the actual amount.