KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) restrained customs officials from taking any action against M/s AMK Steels Private Limited and M/s Sikander Steels Private Limited and also directed them to providing an opportunity of being heard seeking release of its consignment of iron and steel re-meltable and re-rollable scrap imported from UK and Dubai.
On 2 October, 2020, a two-member bench heard the matter, during the hearing, Ahmed Ali Hussain advocate appears on behalf of the petitioner and argued that the lawfully imported consignment of the petitioner pertaining to iron and steel re-meltable and re-rollable scrap from UK and Dubai are not being processed by the respondents, whereas, the petitioner has also made a request for mutilation in terms of section 27A of the customs act, 1969 is case the part of the scrap is oversized, however, such request of the petitioner is also not being considered by the respondents and there is an apprehension that the respondents may take adverse action against the petitioners in violation of law.
He further submitted that the issue in hand has already been decided by this court in the case of the Collector of Customs through Additional Collector of Customs (Law), Karachi v. M/s Chaudhry Steel Re-Rolling Mills Pvt Ltd, Lahore and other.
After the hearing, court passed order and observes in its order that “let pre-admission notice be issued to the respondents as well as DAG, to be served through first three modes for a date for be fixed after two weeks, when comments, if any, shall be filed with advance copy to the learned counsel for the petitioner, in the meanwhile, the respondents are directed to process the GDs of the petitioners in accordance with law, whereas, the request of the petitioner for mutilation may be considered after providing an opportunity of being heard, however, till next date, no adverse action may be taken against the petitioner”.
