The Lahore High Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging increase in prices of sugar for being not maintainable and observed that fixing sugar's price was not the responsibility of courts. The petitioner Obaidullah Kalyar advocate submitted that sugar mills' owners had created artificial sugar shortage in the markets due to which the price of sugar had increased from Rs 45 to Rs 78.
He alleged that the owners of the sugar mills were creating shortage of sugar to mint money. He alleged that capitalists, political personalities and government officials were doing so with the support of each other. He prayed the court to direct the authorities concerned to take action against hoarders. The Chief Justice observed that it was not responsibility of the courts to fix prices of sugar in the country. Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah dismissed the petition for not being maintainable.
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