All stakeholders agree to sell milk at Rs 94 per litre from April 1: SHC informed

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday was informed that all stakeholders were agreed to sell milk at Rs 94 per litre from April 01 and the notification in this regard will be issued soon.
The SHC bench, headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, was hearing the petition filed by Haji Muhammad Shakir Umer, Omar Bashir Maniar and Muhammad Imran Shehzad, a civil rights campaigner who had moved the court for reduction of rates of dairy products and formation of a task force to regulate their prices.
When different groups of associations argued the prices during the hearing, the court came down hard on them remarking that the milk is the basic necessity and the common man is suffering due to hike in the price. "We could pass directives for Sindh government to subsidies milk to give some sort of relief to the people," Justice Abbasi remarked.
During the hearing, the commissioner Karachi Ejaz Ahmed submitted before the court the minutes of the meeting held between all stakeholders including different associations of dairy farmers, retailers and the administration. He informed the judges that all stakeholders with consent were agreed to sell milk at Rs 94 per litre and signed the minutes of the meeting chaired by the Commissioner Karachi for fixation of milk prices.
The court directed the Commissioner Karachi to issue notification within two days under the relevant law and to ensure that the milk is sold in the market on the fixed price. Besides, the court ordered that the milk quality should be checked at every level, dairy farms, at wholesalers and retailers. "In case of any violation, the strict action will be taken against delinquent persons," the court ruled.
The commissioner assured the judges that all possible efforts will be taken to ensure the sale of dairy products at fixed prices. He, however, decried the shortage of food inspector, saying that the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation did not have required number of food inspectors to check the quality in the market. He requested the court that Mayor Karachi may be directed to induct more food inspector in the department to overcome the issue.
The court directed to put this proposal before the city mayor and hoped that needful will be done at the earliest and in accordance with law.
Disposing off the matter, the bench clarified that it had not dilated upon the merits of the issue regarding fixation of price of milk which "In our view the milk is a necessary commodity consumed by large number of consumers who are mostly the poor and may not feel comfortable with the increase in milk price. However, since representatives of consumers society have also consented to the proposed price, in the meeting held for such purpose, we will examine this aspect of the matter in some other cases at appropriate time," the court ruled in its written order.