The Sindh High Court (SHC) on here Tuesday issued notice on a petition against delay in payment to a sugarcane grower.
The SHC bench comprising Mr Jusitce Muhammad Aqeel Abbasi and Mr Justice Shaukat Ali Memon heard the petition.
Petitioner Ghulam Qadir Jatoi filed a constitutional petition against the province of Sindh citing secretary agricultural, cane commissioner of sugar mills, managing director, Kiran Sugar mills Limited, Noman Village, Dubar Road, district Sukkur, and general manager Kiran Sugar Mills, Noman Village, Dubar Road, district Sukkur as respondents.
The lawyer of the petitioner Syed Abdul Waheed submitted that the petitioner was a senior advocate of the honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan. The petitioner has agricultural lands situated at Deh New Baije, Taluka Pano Akil, district Sukkur with sugarcane cultivation in his agricultural lands.
That the petitioner used to supply the sugarcane, cultivated in his land, to the respondents as per Sugarcane Act, 1934, and the West Pakistan Sugarcane Factories Control Rule, 1950, and the petitioner fully obeys the manual of food law in Pakistan.
That the petitioner, being owner of the sugarcane, supplied sugarcane to the respondents, who are legally bound in terms of rule 14(2) of the Sugar Factories Control Rules, 1950, to make payment of the sugarcane, purchased by them, within a period of one week of the demand made by the cane grower.
That the respondents did not make the payment to the petitioner despite such demand was made by the petitioner and thereby failed to fulfill their contractual obligation of the agreement by illegally claiming to have made the payments to some persons who have never been authorised by the petitioner, the respondents have thus violated rule 14(4) of the Sugarcane Factories Control Rules, 1950.
The petitioner prayed to cancel the license of respondent sugar mills for illegally withholding the payment of the sugarcane to him and others.
