Samba:A team of officers from Legal Metrology Department, comprising Assistant Controller Legal Metrology Samba, Ajay Kumar Verma, Inspector Legal Metrology, Mohsin Khateeb and other staff members, conducted an extensive checking of various business establishments at Bari Brahmana, Vijaypur, Swankha Morh, Panjtilla, Reyian, IGC Samba and adjoining areas.
More than 130 different business establishments were inspected and check the compliance with regard to various provisions of J&K Standard of Weights and Measures Enforcement Act 2011(Amended) and Legal Metrology packages Commodities rules 2011.
In all, 29 challans were issued for violation of various prevailing Legal Metrology Laws and Rules and a penalty of Rs 45,500 was imposed on the erring traders.