KARACHI: A suspect namely Muhammad Ibrahim fled out from the Customs Taxation & Anti-Smuggling on Monday when he was produced before the court in a case of attempting to smuggled/ non-duty paid contraband foreign cigarettes from Iran to Karachi.
According to the details, officials of the Anti-smuggling Organisation has produced suspects bus driver namely Bashir and cleaner Muhammad Ibrahim before the court for seeking physical remand, however, when investigation officer of this case was in court than suspect namely Muhammad Ibrahim fled out from the corridor of the court, sources said hand-cuff was free in his hands, therefore, he easily escaped from the court.
According to the sources, during his escaped no one customs officials tried to arrest him instead of dozens of officers and staff members of customs department were there.
It needs to the mentioned here that both suspects were produced before the court on Saturday and court had sent them to customs department on physical remand till Monday, during the hearing, investigation officer had informed the court that on credible information, officials of the customs department intercepted a bus which was coming from Quetta and during the search, recovered huge quantity of foreign brand cigarettes from their possession.
After his arguments, court had sent them on physical remand and directed him to produce them on next date of hearing along with progress report.
