LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has sent two accused to jail on the extension of judicial remand of 14 days.
Two accused Rehmat Ali and Nasir Khan were arrested by the customs intelligence. After apprehending the accused, Pakistan Customs Intelligence had started investigation against them and got their physical remand as well for this purpose. The Customs Intelligence had also recovered a huge quantity of foreign made smuggling cloths and related goods from their possession. The Customs Intelligence had told the court that the accused had been involved in a smuggling of cloths from Afghanistan into Lahore and Faisalabad via different routes. They had caused the national kitty a loss of taxes and duties. They have been involved in smuggling for long time. The value of the recovered cloths is Rs8.3million.
The Customs Investigation team had presented them before the customs court and asked for their physical remand to dig out the network behind this smuggling mafia.
After the completion of the physical remand, they had been produced before the court again from where the court had sent them to jail on judicial remand. Now again, the special court of customs taxation and anti-smuggling has sent them to jail for further 14 days.