Notices issued on plea of Tareen’s sugar mills

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday issued notices to the Trade Development Authority director general on a contempt petition for not complying with an order under which government officials were restrained from interfering into the functioning of a mill, owned by Jahangir Khan Tareen.

Ali Saeed, manager of the JDW Sugar Mills of Jahangir Khan Tareen, moved the petition submitting that the cabinet division had issued a notification allowing production of white sugar and the mills had been producing it for last several years. But the Trade Development Authority had started interference into functioning of Tareen’s mills. The petitioner said that the LHC on March 10 in its order had barred the government from closing his sugar mills. He prayed the court to restrain the authority from closure the production. After hearing initial arguments, Justice Ayesha A Malik issued notices to the authority’s DG and sought reply. In another similar matter against closure of sugar mills, Justice Shujat Ali Khan refused hearing of petition moved by a Jamat-i-Islami leader and sent it to the Chief Justice to fix it before any other appropriate bench.