Staff Reporter
MILK PRICES: The higher court has directed Karachi Commissioner to control milk prices and keep the process not above Rs.94 per litre. This was observed during hearing of a petition submitted before the higher court against escalated milk prices received by the milk retailers.
The higher court asked the authorities concerned as why they could not control the prices of milk per litre and how the milk retailers were freely selling the milk at higher rates that the common men could not afford to buy. The higher court also was unhappy with the Karachi Commissioner and directed him to submit a report in the court on November 12.
After the hearing, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Planning Department Director Waseem Ud Din told the newsmen that the milk prices were already fixed at Rs.94 per litre but the milk retailers were selling it at the higher rates ion their own.
He said that he has orders of the court to penalise those milk retailers who would not comply to court orders and KMC has powers to impose a fine up to Rs. 30,. 000 and jail those for 6 months who would not pay the sum of fine.
Moreover the higher court has fixed a deadline for recovery of 79 missing persons followed by a detailed report on the subject matter.
The higher court had heard a petition regarding missing persons. The attorneys of the petitioners apprised the higher court that a citizen Mehboob Ali and other 70 persons were missing and their whereabouts are still not known to the families. The higher court in its remarks asked Police and other departments to take steps for the recovery of the missing persons and submit a detailed report in a month.
