KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has sought comments from the Pakistan Customs in response to a petition of customs bonded carrier against blocking of its Web Based One Customs (WeBOC) user ID.
Petitioner, M/s Docks (Private) Limited, through its director Arbab Khan ,has taken the Secretary Revenue Division and collector WeBOC to the court for blocking its user ID.
The petitioner’s counsel submitted that M/s Ayub Packages, Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa had imported a consignment of assorted beverages and subsequently filed online goods declaration through its User ID. The importer authorized the petitioner carrier for transshipment of imported goods to Peshawar.
Later, the counsel said, the petitioner sent a request for cancellation of transshipment which was accepted. On July 28, the Collectorate of Customs Preventive lodged an FIR against the importer for mis-declaring the goods.
However, the counsel said, the petitioner’s User ID was blocked for unknown reasons. When approached the customs authorities he came to know that his ID was blocked in connection with the FIR. He argued that the user ID was blocked without any justification and adopting procedure laid down under Section 155-F of Customs Act 1969.
The petitioner prayed to the court to order the customs authorities to reactivate its user ID.
According to the FIR, the importer mis-declared the goods and on examination of the consignment, a huge quantity of assorted foreign-origin beer cans, whiskey bottles and wine was recovered. The consignment included 6,312 bottles of liquor, 2,904 bottles of wine and 6,720 cans of beer.
