Sugar crisis: IHC lifts stay order, allows govt to take action against culprits

Pakistan

The Islamabad High Court Saturday vacated the stay order on sugar inquiry report and allowed the government to take action against those found involved in the scam.

Chief Justice Athar Minallah on June 11 had barred the authorities from proceeding in this regard and issued directives for the commodity to be sold at the rate of Rs70/kg for the next 10 days.

The Pakistan Sugar Mills Association and mills’ owners had challenged the formation of the probe commission and its findings in the court.

The commission, in its report, had accused the millers of earning illegal profits amounting to billions of rupees through unjustified price hikes, benami transactions, tax evasion, suspicious sugar export deals, illegal power production, misuse of subsidy and purchasing sugarcane off the books.

In its short order issued after Attorney General Khalid Jawed Khan concluded his arguments, the court disposed of the petition and ruled that the formation of inquiry panel was legal.

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