ISLAMABAD: Customs Appellate Tribunal on Thursday dated in office hearing of three customs references filed against Model Collectorate of Customs and Directorate General of Investigation and Intelligence, Islamabad.
A single bench of the tribunal comprising Member, Syed Muhammad Anwar heard the cases. The bench adjourned the case after hearing brief arguments by the appellants. M/s Lucky Enterprises, Haq Nawaz and Wasif Hussain had filed these cases. All of these cases had been filed during 2016.
M/s Lucky Enterprises had had filed the case against MCC. It had challenged a customs duty assessment sustained by the adjudication.
Haq Nawaz and Wasif Hussain had filed cases regarding release of vehicles which were seized by customs authorities amid attempt to smuggling various items.
They had filed cases against customs intelligence and investigation, Islamabad. The bench adjourned hearing of these cases till next week.
The appellants had challenged department’s adjudication decision before the bench through the said cases. Adjudication had maintained charges against appellants during departmental hearings.
During previous hearing, the bench had adjourned haring of said cases due to absence of responding counsels from the tribunal.
This is for the fourth time the bench had adjourned hearing on the matters being heard by it for the last few weeks. Earlier, a single bench of tribunal had heard the cases.
