Rs 36000 fine recovered from erring Traders: KISHTWAR

KISHTWAR OCTOBER 28

Legal Metrology Department (LMD) Kishtwar has fined seven traders for violation of rules across the district. The erring traders were fined for defective weighing instruments, less quantity in packages against declared value and lack of proper declarations on pre-packaged commodities. A composition sum of Rs 36,000 (Thirty six thousand only) was recovered from the violators. The market checking was done under the supervision of Joint Controller LMD Jammu at Kishtwar town, Shashoo Padder, Sarthal, Shalimar, Hasti, Mughalmaidan and adjoining areas.

The traders were asked to use only verified weighing and measuring instruments for commercial transactions and to desist from sale of Non-Standard pre-packaged commodities without required declarations for the information of consumers.