Itanagar, Apr 11: Acting on the direction of the Deputy Commissioner Capital Region Komkar Dulom, officers from the District Administration along with enforcement officers of the Department of Legal Metrology & Consumer Affairs on Saturday made surprise inspections to several trading premises of wholesale and retail traders in Naharlagun area.
EAC Naharlagun Ashok Tajo informed that during last few days and mainly after declaration of the lockdown, there had been many complaints regarding overpricing of essential commodities and packaged items at various grocery stores in the Capital Region. The team comprising of SDO Doimukh Sabaddam Tayang, Assistant Controller (LM & CA) Taba Tabin,  Inspector(LM & CA) Debia Tana and Inspector(LMCA) Taw Tassar inspected the trading premises of around 19 traders in G-Extension, Polo Colony, D-Sector and Barapani area under Naharlagun Circle. 
During inspections, 3 traders were caught with overpricing of water bottles, cold drinks etc. and were booked for violation of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.  Out of these, 1 case was booked for using unverified weights and measures and exhibiting wrong weight and the remaining 2 were booked for overpricing. The traders and common public were advised not to encourage overpricing of essential and packaged commodities for the common betterment during the lockdown period.
Capital DC while warning that such inspections would be carried out on daily basis, requested the traders, wholesalers & retailers to cooperate with the administration and strictly follow the business etiquettes. DIPRO

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