LAHORE: The Customs Appellate Tribunal heard 23 cases on Wednesday. The members of all the benches from Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar heard cases at Lahore bench and adjourned all the cases until next hearing. Chairman Customs Appellate Tribunal established special benches to decide the cases.
The Customs Appellate Tribunal’s special division bench, comprising Member Judicial Bench-II Karachi and Member Technical Bench-II, adjourned 10 cases Pak Kuwait versus customs Lahore, Plum Qingqi versus customs Lahore, Furrukh Naseem and Malik Zaheer versus customs Lahore, directorate of Intelligence and investigation Faisalabad versus Safder Ali, Imteaz Ahmed and Amjed Amin versus customs Lahore, two cases of Jamshed Iqbal and Asad Mehmood versus customs Lahore and Arshed Mehmood versus customs Lahore.
Special division bench-I of Lahore comprising Chairman Justice (r) Malik Manzoor Hussain and Member Technical Zulifqar A Kazmi mheard the cases of Mugahl Iron versus customs Lahore, Wahab Gull versus customs Lahore, Pervaiz Umer Enterprises versus customs Lahore two cases, Pak Star Automobile versus customs Lahore, Pakistan Mobile Com versus customs Lahore, Imtiaz Ahmed versus customs Lahore, Nasir Khan versus customs Faisalabad.
Furthermore bench heard cases of Docks Private Limited seven appeals versus customs Lahore, standard manu versus customs Lahore, Baram Khan versus customs Lahore, Shell Pak versus customs Multan and Rehmat Ullah versus customs Lahore.
In all the cases, counsels for appellants and recipients appeared before the court and submitted arguments. After hearing the arguments from all the parties, the tribunal member reserved verdict in two cases and all other cases’ hearings were adjourned for next dates.