Four sugar mills have approached Lahore High Court against the show cause notices issued by Competition Commission Pakistan (CCP). Kohinoor, Chishtian, Gojra-Samundari and Sheikhu Sugar Mills filed petitions through their counsel Ijaz Ahmad Awan stating that the CCP had issued them show cause notices accusing them of cartelisation.
The counsel said the CCP issued notices to the petitioners under the Competition Ordinance 2009, which had been declared as annulled by the Supreme Court in its landmark judgement of July 31. He said the SC had ordered that all the ordinances promulgated under the PCO by former president Pervez Musharraf including the impugned ordinance were to be approved by the parliament within 4 months. But the parliament failed to do so, however, the President re-enacted the said ordinance in violation of the SC judgement. The counsel prayed to the court to declare the notices as unconstitutional and without any lawful jurisdiction.