The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday summoned the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation chief food inspector to submit comments on the petition seeking regulation of dairy products’ prices.
The SHC bench, headed by Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, was hearing the petition filed by Muhammad Imran Shehzad, a civil rights campaigner, who moved the court for reduction of dairy products and formation of a task force to regulate the prices.
The Karachi commissioner submitted a report in the court on Friday according to which there were no fix prices of milk for the last two years, however, the city administration had now fixed the milk prices at Rs 80 per litre.
While adjourning the hearing till March 31, 2016, the court summoned KMC’s chief food inspector.
Earlier, the petitioner had stated that the authorities concerned were not fixing the prices of dairy products by following the procedure provided under the Price Control and Prevention Profiteering and Hoarding Act, 1977.
According to the petitioner, the SHC in August 2016 directed the authorities concerned to form a mechanism to control and maintain the prices of dairy product, however, the milk prices were increased in violation of court’s earlier order. The court was requested by the petitioner to direct the law enforcement agencies, including Rangers and police, to ensure the sale of milk at Rs 70 per litre.
