KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) will hear a petition filed against storing and increasing prices of sanitizer today.
SHC Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar will conduct the hearing. During the last hearing, the judge assembled the officials of the Supply and Prices and directed the enforcement of the Sindh Registration of Godown Act 1995.
The judge remarked that the court should be informed about where the sanitizers were being stocked so the court can send the police there immediately for a raid. Moreover, the court ordered the government to submit a reply over its supply.
The court in this regard also issued a written interim order over a plea seeking control on a rapid increase in rates of surgical masks in which it sought reports from the federal and Punjab government over the shortage.
A petition was filed by Advocate Tariq Mansoor in which he requested the court that sanitizers have been saved in stock illegally and were being sold at expensive prices due to the coronavirus disease. The nationwide tally of the coronavirus has risen to 3,864 after new cases were reported across the country today.
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