Jammu, Oct. 20 -- The Legal Metrology Department (LMD) has issued 60 improvement notices and booked 71 challans across Jammu and Kashmir in October so far as part of an intensified enforcement drive to check violations and protect consumers during the festival season.
The inspections, conducted under the supervision of Controller Legal Metrology J&K Shiv Kumar Gupta, have focused on short delivery, underweight commodities, use of unverified weights and measures, and violations of mandatory declarations on packaged goods.
The department has also imposed penalties amounting to Rs.3.50 lakh in cases involving short delivery of fuel, underweight commodities and failure to comply with improvement notices within the prescribed period.
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