ISLAMABAD: A division bench of Customs Appellate Tribunal adjourned the hearing of a complaint, seeking release of seized 150 mobile phones with directives to the parties to provide details of the case on the next date of hearing.
Tribunal’s members, including Nair Khan and Ziauddin Wazir, heard the reference and adjourned. During the last hearing, the bench had to postpone the hearing of the matter owing to the absence of the lawyer from the tribunal.
The appellant had challenged the decision in which the tribunal had ordered to maintain seizure of the mobile phones confiscated by the customs authorities at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad.
That time, Customs Appellate Tribunal’s single bench comprising Member Technical, Muhammad Nasir Khan heard the petition challenging 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.
