ISLAMABAD: Customs Intelligence and Preventive staff have requested the authorities to ask the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to appoint an officer in place of Customs Adjudication Additional Collector Eram M Amir or make arrangements for hearing cases in Islamabad Adjudication.
Customs Adjudication Additional Collector Eram M Amir has been transferred to the information department of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Inland Revenue (IR) Policy.
No other officers has yet been appointed to Customs Adjudication as her replacement, due to which all case under the supervision of Eram M Amir have been transferred to Peshawar Adjudication Additional Collector Karam Elahi for hearing. As many as 14 cases have been transferred to Peshawar Adjudication out of which seven are of Customs Intelligence.
The transfer of these cases to Peshawar created problems not only for the applicants but also for the customs officials, as they will pay all the expenses to go to Peshawar from Islamabad for the cases. Moreover, they will also face problems in taking the witnesses along.
