ISLAMABAD: Division bench of the Customs Appellate Tribunal has become dysfunctional as Tribunal’s Member Technical, Khalid Mehmood has been appointed as managing director of Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC).
As a result of Mehmood’s transfer to OEC, CAT Division Bench-I, which used to comprise CAT Chairman Ghulam Murtaza Bhatti and Member Technical, Khalid Mehmood has become dysfunctional.
Sources privy to Customs Today stated that the division bench will remain dysfunctional till appointment of another member. The chairman could not hold hearing in DB alone.
They said ministry of law and justice was supposed to appoint member in replacement of Mehmood, however, the chairman could also make bench functional by calling any member from regional offices of tribunal.
The chairman was likely to call a member from Karachi or Lahore in order to sustain hearing at Islamabad which would start from November 17, they added.
