PHC asks for unanimous CNG price policy

The Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), during a hearing in a case against low gas pressure and load-shedding in the province, asked the relevant institutions to formulate a unanimous policy to determine the price of CNG per kilogramme.

A two-member bench of the PHC, comprising Chief Justice PHC Justice Qaiser Rasheed and Justice Abdul Shakoor, expressed shock to know that the CNG association fixes the prices of the commodity.

The CJ questioned OGRA about whether it had given a free hand to consumers as well as fixed prices for CNG for itself like the CNG association.

He called it a bad practice and directed that all relevant institutions convene to develop a unanimous policy in this regard and present a report to the court at the next hearing, scheduled for May 9.

Earlier, Chairman OGRA Masroor Khan appraised the court.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 17^th, 2023.