ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed with the Customs Appellate Tribunal, seeking rehearing of a case carrying complaint against seizure of over 150 Apple mobile phones at the airport.
A division bench of the tribunal would hear the case, challenging a decision of the single bench of the tribunal. The tribunal’s members, including Nair Khan and Ziauddin Wazir, would hear the matter. The office has yet to fix the date of hearing for the case.
The appellant had challenged the decision in which tribunal had ordered to maintain seizure of mobile phones confiscated by the customs authorities at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad.
That time, Customs Appellate Tribunal’s single bench comprising of Member Technical, Muhammad Nasir Khan heard the petition challenging Model Collectorate of Islamabad’s decision of mobile phones confiscation.
The tribunal had then dismissed the matter and upheld Customs Colletorate’s decision regarding confiscation of mobile phones worth Rs 6 million.
The petitioner had brought the mobiles into Pakistan through airport which MCC had declared illegal and in violation of regulations adopted for carrying mobiles phone in luggage.
The customs collectorate authorities had confiscated the mobile phones at the airport and subsequently decided not to release them as the petitioner had violated the rules while returning to Pakistan. He had claimed that he carried 170 mobile phone which he gift his friends and family members.
