Sindh High Court (SHC) here on Tuesday issued notice on a petition against delay in payment to a sugarcane grower. Petitioner Ghulam Qadir Jatoi son of Haji Fateh Muhammad, Muslim, Advocate Supreme Court filed a constitutional petition against the province of Sindh, through secretary agricultural. The cane Commissioner of sugar Mills, the managing director, Kiran Sugar mills Limited, Noman village, Dubar Road, district Sukkur, and the general manager Kiran Sugar Mills, Noman village, Dubar Road, district Sukkur, Sindh.
The lawyer of the petitioner Syed Abdul Waheed submitted that the petitioner is a senior advocate (AOR) of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The petitioner has agricultural lands situated at Deh New Baije, Taluka Pano Akil, district Sukkur with sugarcane cultivation in his agricultural lands.
That the petitioner used to supply the sugarcane, cultivated in his land, to the respondents No3 and 4 as per sugarcane Act, 1934, and the West Pakistan Sugarcane Factories Control Rule, 1950, and the petitioner fully obeys the manual of food law in Pakistan. That the petitioner, being owner of the sugarcane, supplied sugarcane to the respondent No3 and 4, who are legally bound in terms of rule 14(2) of the Sugar Factories Control Rules, 1950, to make payment of the sugarcane, purchased by them, within a period of one week of the demand made by the cane grower.