KARACHI: After several notices and more than a dozen adjournments one after another, the Sindh High Court sought on Thursday comments from petitioners, including dairy farmers and the retailer association besides official respondents on the issue of milk prices.
The division bench comprising Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Imam Bux Baloch was hearing two identical petitions challenging milk prices in Karachi city.
One of the petitioners, Rana Faizul Hasan, anticipating an adjournment, submitted that the notices were issued to the respondents several times but to date they have not submitted their comments.
He said that five million litres of milk is sold daily in Karachi. He said that the Karachi commissioner twice fixed the price of milk at Rs60 per litre but it is being sold at Rs70 per litre and men in the trade are “milking five crore rupees daily from the people of Karachi.”
He said that the government, particularly the administration, had failed to implement its orders.
Due to a shortage of time and on a request for adjournment by official respondents, the bench adjourned the hearing to an unspecified date.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 20th, 2012.
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