Wheat warehouse sealed over hoarding
Any person or dealer could not store more than 25 maund or 1,000 kilogrammes of wheat grain
MANSEHRA:
The district administration has launched crackdown against hoarding of wheat, sealing a warehouse on Thursday after recovering hundreds of illegally hoarded wheat bags from the facility.
Assistant Commissioner Talat Fahad and his team along with heavy contingent of police conducted a raid at place within limits of Attar Shia Saddar Police Station and recovered hundreds of wheat bags which had been illegally hoarded.
The inspection team sealed the facility and arrested the owner. Officials said that food grain licence was necessary for storing wheat.
However any person or dealer could not store more than 25 maund or 1,000 kilogrammes of wheat grain.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2020.
The district administration has launched crackdown against hoarding of wheat, sealing a warehouse on Thursday after recovering hundreds of illegally hoarded wheat bags from the facility.
Assistant Commissioner Talat Fahad and his team along with heavy contingent of police conducted a raid at place within limits of Attar Shia Saddar Police Station and recovered hundreds of wheat bags which had been illegally hoarded.
The inspection team sealed the facility and arrested the owner. Officials said that food grain licence was necessary for storing wheat.
However any person or dealer could not store more than 25 maund or 1,000 kilogrammes of wheat grain.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2020.