KARACHI: The Special Customs and Taxation Court on Monday restrained the customs officials from arresting a suspect in US Army transit cargo pilferage case till Tuesday.
Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi issued a notice to the customs prosecutor to file response to the application of suspect Adnan, seeking bail in the case until September 01.
Applicant Adnan, an employee of Peerzada Services International, through his counsel Abdul Hafeez moved the court, requesting it to grant pre-arrest bail in the case.
According to the details of the case, Ghani International, an authorized representative of Consulate General of United States of America filed goods declaration for a consignment of US Army reverse cargo declared to contain generator power with transformer and equipment for transit to Karachi port for export to Dubai.
During perusal and observation of the scanning images and weight, and weight slips of the GDs, the images of instant GD did not appear as per the description declared in the invoice and packing list.
Therefore, the consignment was examined physically in the presence of representatives of Multitrans International Private Ltd, and Peerzada Services International being the authorized representative of US Consulate General.
During the course of examination, shipper and custom seals were found intact. However, the generating sets declared in the invoice and packing list were not found in the containers.
Subsequently an FIR was lodged against the directors of Port Connection namely Raza-ur-Rehman, Malik Ali Asghar and Romail Ahmed Dar; Shahzad Rasool of Multitrans Logistics; Peerzada Abdul Aleem of Peerzada Services International; Adil Ghani of Ghani’s International; Shahid Ansari of Bilal Associates, Tikka Khan of Adil Goods Transport Co. Irfan Afridi and others.
