The city police on Sunday arrested a shopkeeper from Defence Housing Authority (DHA) for selling a single facemask at Rs550 in the wake of the novel coronavirus threat.

An official said that upon receiving a complaint that N-95 type masks were being sold on expensive rates at Mehmood Pharmacy in DHA H Block market, a police officer when to the store in civil dress and found the complaint genuine as the shopkeeper was selling a single facemask for Rs550.