ISLAMABAD: Customs Appellate Tribunal Chairman Justice (r) Manzoor Hussain has directed tribunal staffers to finalize preparations to complete the hearing of already pending cases.
After taking charge of the tribunal’s administration, the newly appointed chairman issued directives to the employees of the tribunal that those cases which were old and already pending with the tribunal would be heard on priority basis.
The move is oriented to bring immediate relief to the appellants contesting their cases at the tribunal since long, tribunal’s officials quoted the chairman as saying.
Following the directives, the tribunal had listed most old cases for hearing starting on August 17.
At his first hearing at the tribunal, the chairman would hear cases filed by Aftab Ahmed, Dr SaeedUllah, M Akram and Brothers, M/s Digicell, M/s Mobo International and Zubair Ahmed.
Details showed that all of these cases were old as Aftab Ahmed had filed his case at tribunal first time in 2015, Dr SaeedUllah, and M Akram and Brothers had filed their cases before tribunal in 2012, M/s Digicell and M/s Mobo International had filed their cases in 2013 while Zubair Ahmed filed his case in 2014.
Cases which would be heard by the chairman have been filed against the Collectorate of Customs, Islamabad.
