1600 bags fertilizer seized over profiteering.

MUZAFFARGARH -- The district administration on Tuesday seized 1600 bags of fertilizer from local dealers for selling fertilizer on exorbitant prices to local farmers during separate raids at Chowk Sarwar Shaheed and Rohillanwali.

According to the district administration spokesman, Assistant Commissioner Chowk Sarwar Shaheed Naeem Bashir, on the repeated complaints of local farmers against a local dealer Ali Ahmed, raided his shop and checked the stock and prices of the fertilizer. Naeem Bashir seized 800 bags fertilizer being sold at R. 2600 per bag against the recommended rate of R. 1950.

The dealer had also tortured a farmer when he refused to pay Rs. 2600 per bag and demanded it on the recommended rates of...

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