Inspection of petrol pumps ordered

Commissioner Multan division Amir Khattak directed deputy commissioners to begin inspecting all petrol pumps in their respective districts and penalise those using tampered measurement equipment to defraud people.

Chairing a performance review meeting on Thursday, the Commissioner said that petrol pumps giving lesser quantities of fuel to customers would be penalized as per the law and also ordered indiscriminate action against violators of the one-dish law at marriage halls and those involved in hoarding essential commodities.  He tasked price control magistrates to improve their performance and ordered them to resolve all complaints received on the Qeemat App.

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Deputy commissioners from Multan, Khanewal, Vehari and Lodhran informed him that 136 price control magistrates conducted 7,899 inspections throughout the division in the past 24 hours and 26 violators were arrested, five FIRs were registered and a fine of Rs613,500 was imposed on
violators against 220 complaints.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 5^th, 2024.