KARACHI: A customs appellate bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) on Mondayadjourned hearing of a constitution petition filed by one Abid Ashraf seeking release of a Toyota Hilux Surf vehicle detained by Directorate of Intelligence and Investigations, Pakistan Customs.
Earlier the bench perused the comments filed by respondent DIT filed by Khalid Rajpar advocate. The counsel raised the issue of the bona fide ownership of the vehicle and that in another Special Customs Reference Application (SCRA) 311 of 2013 having same chasis number etc. The counsel raises the issue that how the Motor Vehicle Registration department registered three different vehicles with same chasis number i.e LN 130-0122417 but different enginer number . The models however were shown to be of 1992, 1996 and 2004.
The counsel for respondent prayed to the court to direct the Nazir of the SHC to call the owners/claimants of the three vehicles for verification of the documents etc. The court was also prayed to summon the MVR officials who registered the three vehicles with same number and also to impose exemplary fine on petitioner in the instant petition.
The bench after perusing the para wise comments adjourned further proceedings till Oct 30.