The farmers' attempt to raise the rate of milk was in violation of the
Price Control Act as well as the Sindh High Court's orders.
A case was registered against the plant owner, Syed Farooq Shah, under
Price Control Act and Weight and Measures Act at the Okara Saddr police station.
Similarly, the Special Price Magistrates in the district have challan 300 profiteers and have arrested 28 others under the Essential
Price Control Act while criminal cases have been registered against four profiteers during the past 21 days of Ramzan.
Aturu had sued the Minister of Petroleum Resources and the Attorney General of the Federation, praying for an order restraining the Federal Government from deregulating the downstream sector of the petroleum industry for failing to fix the prices of petroleum products as mandatorily required by the Petroleum Act and the
Price Control Act.
The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP)'s Land, Agriculture and Food Security committee has called for the introduction of a Land
Price Control Act in absence of agro-ecological zoning as well as for mechanisms to ensure that the current high demand for land does not distort land prices.
Roosevelt's Emergency
Price Control Act of 1942, and Federal freezing of New York City rents.
While Congress was burning up seven months dickering over the Emergency
Price Control Act that FDR requested, OPA was rushing ahead with its preparations.
The police also arrested 333 persons for doing wheelie, 319 kite-flyers, 52 persons involved in firing in the air, 28 for violation of the Begging Act, 950 for violation of
Price Control Act and 35 for violation of Loudspeaker Act.
The SPMs also arrested 13 shopkeepers under the Essential Commodities
Price Control Act and got registered cases against them at different police stations.
They fined 216 shopkeepers for profiteering and also registered cases against 37 shopkeepers on violation of
Price Control Act, he added.
The SPMs have also arrested three shopkeepers for violating the Essential Commodities
Price Control Act during the last month.
The teams also got cases registered against 18 shopkeepers for serious violation of
Price Control Act.
