KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has adjourned the hearing of a petition filed by Khuda Raham seeking release order of his oil tanker with 60,000 litre of HSD. A two-member bench, comprising Justice Munib Akhter and Justice Anwar Hussain was hearing the petition.
During the hearing, court was informed that reference application has been filed against the order of the appellate tribunal by the department, therefore, court adjourned the hearing for date which would be announced according to roaster.
Earlier petitioner’s counsel stated that on the basis of false assumption dated March 24, 2015 show cause notice was issued by the Collector of Customs Adjudication, Quetta to the petitioner as well as his driver containing the allegations that the HSD oil is question was smuggled one and has been brought into country without payment of customs duty and levied able taxes.
Petitioner stated that during the hearing before concern authority in respect of said show cause notice was attended by the petitioner through his advocate and denied the charges leveled therein and then filed the appeal before appellate tribunal which directed the authority concerned to release the HSD oil and oil tanker.
According to the petitioner, when petitioner had approached the authority concerned for compliance the appellate tribunal’s order, respondents had refused the request of the petitioner to release the said oil tanker due to which the petitioner is suffering huge financial losses. If the clearance of the said oil tanker is further delayed, the petitioner will suffer from irreparable losses.
He argued that oil tanker and HSD oil were seized by the respondent’s arbitrary, illegal, mala-fide on the basis of false assumption that the petitioner was involved in Smuggling in huge quality of HSD oil 60,000 liters.
Citing the Collector of Customs, Hyderabad and chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) as respondent’s petitioner pleaded the SHC may direct the respondents to release the said oil tanker bearing registration number TLX -770 loaded 60,000 liters HSD oil.
