ICT Admin arrested 112 profiteers in June amid COVID-19.

ISLAMABAD -- The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration has registered 24 first information reports (FIRs) and arrested 112 shopkeepers for selling edible items on exorbitant rates during the month of June amid COVID-19.

The authorities also collected over Rs1 million fine from the shopkeepers in that regard, according to the data shared by the local administration on Thursday.

Assistant Commissioner (AC) (Shalimar and Potohar) Sidra Anwar registered 15 FIRs and arrested eight persons, while AC (Secretariat and Koral), Asad ullah booked 17 violators and registered four FIRs.

Similarly, 52 sopkeepers were held by AC (Rural) Abdullah besides registering of two FIRs and 25 were nabbed by AC (City) Ghulam Murtaza Chandio with one FIR registered.

Five were arrested in Industrial Area and two FIRs were lodged and three were booked by AC Danish in the urban areas while two in the sub-urban areas of the federal capital.

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