The district administration on Tuesday conducted surprise inspection of a flour mills and seized unspecified number of wheat flour bags on charge of misusing wheat quota.
The inspection was conducted on the orders of Deputy Commissioner Agha Zaheer Abbas Sherazi to monitor and penalise flour mills involved in misusing wheat quota. During the inspection of Rashid Flour Mills, the official team found the mills workers shifting the wheat flour prepared from wheat quota of older dates in new bags to deceive officials. All the wheat bags were taken into possession.
The assistant commissioner said the said flour mills had also faced heavy fine and its wheat quota was cancelled earlier. This mills has repeated the violation and would face prosecution under the hoarding act, the AC added.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 11th, 2020.
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