KARACHI: The provincial law officer on Tuesday assured the Sindh High Court that the notification regarding fixation of milk price will be implemented throughout the city in letter and spirit.
The court was hearing the petition of Imran Shahzad seeking action against milk sellers for selling milk in violation of notified price. The petitioner submitted that the dairy farmers had increased the milk price in violation of notified government retail price from Rs80 per liter to Rs90 and Rs94 per liter.
He also referred to the court order of August 23, 2013 in which the Commissioner of Karachi had informed the court that 10 samples were taken from different milk shops and sent for examination to the PCSIR and other laboratories out of which nine were found to be injurious to human health and unfit for human consumption.
Additional Advocate-General Mustafa Mahesar submitted that the food department had sent the draft of Sindh food authority to the provincial assembly, and it would be tabled before the assembly for discussion.
He assured the court that the commissioner’s notification regarding fixation of milk price will be implemented throughout the city in letter and spirit. The Commissioner of Karachi, Asif Haider Shah, also submitted his report before the court regarding fixation of prices of various essential commodities. SHC’s division bench, headed by Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, after taking the undertaking of the provincial law officer on record, adjourned the hearing for a date to be fixed by the office.
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