Plea against hike in sugar price dismissed

LAHORE: The LHC on Friday dismissed for being not maintainable a petition challenging increase in sugar price.Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah issued the order, ruling that fixing sugar price was a policy matter of government and courts could not interfere into it. Advocate Obaidullah Kalyar had filed the petition, arguing that sugar mills owners had created artificial shortage of sugar in the markets due to which the price of sugar had increased from Rs45 to Rs78.

He alleged that sugar mills had piled up sugar stocks while there was no shortage of sugar in the country but the mills owners had created shortage of sugar to mint money. He alleged that capitalists, political personalities and government officials had connived in order to rob the public. He prayed to the court to order govt to take action against hoarders. CJ Shah observed that it was not the responsibility of the courts to fix prices of sugar.