{"id":28264,"date":"2025-11-21T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28264"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:04:05","slug":"vehicles-with-smuggled-goods-not-releasable-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28264","title":{"rendered":"Vehicles with smuggled goods not releasable: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Supreme Court has ruled that any legally registered vehicle found transporting smuggled or non-duty-paid goods cannot be released upon payment of a fine, as the Federal Board of Revenue&#8217;s SRO 499(I)\/2009 and its subsequent amendments have abolished this discretion.<\/p>\n<p>The court overturned the decisions of the Peshawar High Court and the Customs Appellate Tribunal, restoring the complete confiscation of the vehicle and goods.<\/p>\n<p>According to the detailed judgment, once the FBR invokes its authority, customs officers and appellate forums no longer possess the power to allow release against a redemption fine.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has ruled that any legally registered vehicle found transporting smuggled or non-duty-paid goods cannot be released upon payment of a fine, as the Federal Board of Revenue&#8217;s SRO 499(I)\/2009 and its subsequent amendments have abolished this discretion. The court overturned the decisions of the Peshawar High Court and the Customs Appellate Tribunal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}