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City administration fines 79 shopkeepers for profiteering

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imageKARACHI: The divisional and district administration Karachi has challaned 79 shopkeepers and fine of Rs.109,800/- were imposed for profiteering and violating officially approved price list.

According to a statement issued here on Wednesday, during crackdown, the administration fined 28 milk sellers, 20 food items grocers, six fruits sellers, 16 chicken sellers, one flour seller and eight vegetables sellers.

The action against profiteers were taken in the areas including Saddar, Civil Line, SITE, Garden, Baldia, Ferozabad, Jamshed Quarters, Gulshan Iqbal, Gulzar Hijri, Liaquat Abad, Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, Orangi, Ibrahim Hyderi, Model Colony, Bin Qasim, Landhi, Korangi and New Karachi.

Commissioner Karachi Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui has said that the operation against profiteers will continue till the sale of essential items is not ensured according to officially approved price list.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2014

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