KARACHI: A divisional bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi and Justice Abdul Malik Gaddi dismissed a Special Customs Reference Application (SCRA) filed by Chawala Dyed and Chemicals.
The Special Customs Appellate Tribunal, Collector of Appeals, Pakistan Customs and Collector Customs East were respondents in the SCRA which impugned the order of tribunal allowing provisional release of a consignment of chemicals against payment of differential amounts of customs duty and other payables through postdated cheques.
The applicant maintained that tribunal transgressed its authority by ordering provisional release on applicants’ application against post dated cheques.
Shakeel Ahmed advocate appearing for the Collector of Customs, East submitted that it was an old SCRA (2011) and applicant has lost interest in the proceedings. He pointed out to the bench that applicant/appellant itself filed the application before the tribunal for provisional release and also expressed readiness to pay differential amount, sales tax, income tax, other payables. The tribunal’s order was legal, firm, he submitted praying to the court to dismiss the SCRA.
The bench called the counsel for applicant/appellant many times but as he failed to appear, the bench dismissed the SCRA.