KARACHI: The Special Customs and Taxation Court has granted bail to a suspect in two cases pertaining to pilferage of the US Army reverse cargo.
Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi approved the bail for Muhammad Adnan, an employee of Peerzada Services International, with surety of Rs 1 million in each case.
According to the prosecution, Directorate General of Transit Trade had lodged two FIRs pertaining to pilferage of US Army reverse cargo in 22 containers during their transit from Torkham to Karachi port. The cargo was declared to contain power generators with transformer and equipment for transit to Karachi port for export to Dubai. When the containers were examined physically at Karachi port they were found empty.
During course of examination, shipper and custom seals were found intact. However, the cargo declared in the invoice and packing list was not found in the containers.
Subsequently two FIRs were registered against bonded carrier M/s. Port Connection (Pvt) Ltd and the authorized agents M/s Peerzada Service International, M/s Ghani’s International and M/s Multitrans Logistics (Pvt) Ltd.
Advocate Shaukat Hayat and Abdul Hafeez, representing the applicant, submitted that the investigation officer had submitted final challan in the cargo pilferage cases on July 24, 2015 in which his client was shown accused. He submitted that the applicant was innocent and implicated in the case. He added no specific role was assigned to the applicant in commission of offence. He pleaded to the Court to grant bail to his client as the same concession was given to other accused.
