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Thursday, November 26, 2009
By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
THE Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed two identical petitions by two sugar mills seeking restraining of Punjab government from seizing sugar from their stocks in excess to 30 per cent limit as decided by the Supreme Court.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed while dismissing the petitions filed by owners of Brothers Sugar Mills and Gunj Shakar Sugar Mills observed that the matter was pending before the Supreme Court and the LHC had no jurisdiction to interfere in it.
Petitioners’ counsel had contended that the Punjab government was forcibly lifting sugar in excess to the limit settled in the agreement between sugar mills owners and government, under which mills had to provide 30 per cent of their production at Rs 40/kg for common public while the remaining 70 cent was to be sold at commercial rates.
The petitioners said Punjab government had already seized 43 percent of their stocks but the food secretary had written a letter to them to supply more sugar. They alleged that officials of the city government were minting money as they were selling whole sugar at commercial rate. They requested the court to restrain government from taking coercive measures against them.
Transfers, postings: The Lahore High Court Chief Justice has made transfers and postings among eleven civil judges-cum-judicial magistrates on Wednesday.
According to a notification, civil judge-com-judicial magistrate Samina Hayat has been transferred from Sargodha to Sheikhupura, Sarwat Mumtaz Syeda from Sahiwal to Kasur, Sadaf Liaqat from Multan to Ferozewala, Muhammad Ayyaz from Sialkot to Multan, Muhammad Ilyas from Shujabad to Multan, Jamil Ahmad Khokhar from Kasur to Isakhel, Muhammad Owais from Isakhel to Sargodha, Umar Farooq Warraich from Sheikhupura to Rawalpindi, Saif Ullah Babur Janjian from Ferozewala to Khanewal, Muhammad Sajid Khan from Khanewal to Sahiwal and Ch Umar Hayat from TT Sing to Rawalpindi.
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