LAHORE: Special federal court of customs taxation and anti-smuggling has sent three accused to jail on a judicial remand of 14 days in a case of smuggling of electronic items.
Three accused Afzal Khan, Raheem Shah and Gulab Khan were arrested by the customs intelligence. Customs intelligence has also recovered huge quantity of smuggled electronic goods from their possession. Intelligence has told the court that accused were involved in smuggling of such goods from Afghanistan to Lahore via different routes. They had caused a huge loss to national kitty in the wake of taxes and duties.
Amount of the recovered items was Rs9million, customs investigation has told the court. Customs investigation team presented them before the customs court and asked for their physical remand in the last month to dig out a network behind this smuggling mafia. On the request, special federal court of customs taxation and anti-smuggling approved their physical remand for two days and handed them over to the investigation team.
After the completion of the remand, they were sent to jail and now the court has extended their judicial remand for further 14 days.
