ISLAMABAD: The Customs Appellate Tribunal (CAT) adjourned the hearing of a petition carrying complaint against seizure of around 150 mobile phones.
Tribunal’s members, including Nair Khan and Ziauddin Wazir, resumed the hearing and adjourned following absence of the lawyer. The bench also directed the administration to reissue notices to the parties involved.
The appellant, through the case had challenged the decision in which tribunal had ordered to maintain seizure of mobile phones first 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 MCC’s decision regarding confiscation of mobile phones worthy 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 MCC 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.
