{"id":33941,"date":"2020-10-06T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=33941"},"modified":"2020-10-06T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:40:46","slug":"legal-metrology-dept-penalizes-erring-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=33941","title":{"rendered":"Legal Metrology Dept penalizes erring traders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong>\u00a0The Legal Metrology Department Kashmir Tuesday said that it conducted 3027 market inspections during the month of September and booked 211 erring traders for violation of Legal Metrology Laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement issued to news agency KINS, the department said that the nature offences detected were short-weighment\/short-delivery\/overcharging on MRP on packed products\/inadequate labeling norms\/use of non-standard weight or measure etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA penal sum of Rs. 6.27 lacs was recovered from the erring traders. The trade wise break-up of challans is: \u201cBakery dealer = 21, Brick Kilns\u00a0 = 10, Drugs\/Surgical Devices = 08, Kiryana Sellers = 24, Petrol Pumps = 08, Package seller = 21, Mutton\/poultry = 18, Miscellaneous = 103\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>It also said that the department also standardized 9565 weights and measures in the laboratories of the department for which a stamping fees of Rs. 5.47 lacs has been realized.(KINS)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0The Legal Metrology Department Kashmir Tuesday said that it conducted 3027 market inspections during the month of September and booked 211 erring traders for violation of Legal Metrology Laws. In a statement issued to news agency KINS, the department said that the nature offences detected were short-weighment\/short-delivery\/overcharging on MRP on packed products\/inadequate labeling norms\/use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}