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Legal metrology dept books 543 cases
against traders
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During the financial year from April
2005 to March 2006, the enforcement
officials of the department of legal
metrology booked 543 cases against
the traders/industrial establishments
for the offences committed by them,
for contravening the provisions of
Standards of Weights and Measures Act
1976, Standards of Weights and Measures
(Enforcement) Act 1985 and
Standards of Weights and Measures
(Packaged Commodities) Rules 1977.
The officials seized 2,999 faulty weights and measures, 6 petrol pumps
and 1 vehicle tank carrying petroleum products and packaged commodities
such as packages of electrical goods, footwears, cement, packages
containing bottles of drinking water, bottles of Indian-made foreign
liquor,
cashew nuts, insect repellent, ice-creams, hardware materials,
aluminuim foil, thermal paper (fax roll), milk packages, garments,
flooring tiles and electronic goods.
The department also collected from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006
Rs 71,54,832 as the verificaation and stamping fees of weights, measures,
weighing and measuring instrument and Rs 6,07,650 as compounding fees
for the offences committed and six cases have been filed in the different
JMFC courts in Goa.
The important cases booked against the traders/industrial establishments
include 37 cases against the traders during the transaction of sale of
packaged commodities such as milk, ice-creams, sweets, footwears,
for selling the packaged commodities exceeding the maximum retail price
(MRP) printed on the packages.
Seventeen cases have been booked against the offenders for
smudging
/altering/obliterating the maximum retail price printed on the packaged
commodities by the manufacturers.
Thirty-six cases have been booked against the
manufacturers/packers
/distributors/retailers of cement, bread, drinking water, Indian-made
foreign liquor, chips and wafers, insect repellent, cashew nuts,
aluminium foil, thermal paper for filling up the quantity in the packages
less than the declared quantity (net
content).
The remaining cases have been booked against the traders/owners
of bar, grocery shop, general stores, exhibition-cum-sale and industrial
establisshments for non-declaration on the packages in their possession
and for having in possession unstamped/unverified and faulty weights
and measures.
All traders are hereby warned by the controller, Legal Metrology, that
inspite of booking the cases and fining
them, it is noticed that they
still continue to sell the packaged commodities without mandatory
declaration such as name and address of the manufacturer/packer,
generic name of the commodity packed, net quantity, month and
year of packing, MRP for which strict action will be taken against
them and all such packaged commodities
will be seized.
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The Navhind
Times 22/4/06 page 3
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