ICT admin registers 24 FIRs, booked 112 profiteers in June amid Covid-19.

ISLAMABAD -- The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration has registered 24 First Information Reports (FIRs) and arrested 112 persons 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.

The Assistant Commissioner (AC) (Shalimar and Potohar), Sidra Anwar registered 15 FIRs and arrested 8 persons, while AC (Secretariat and Koral), Asad ullah booked 17 violators and registered four FIRs.

Similarly, 52 shopkeepers were held by AC (Rural), Abdullah besides registering 2 FIRs and 25 were nabbed by AC (City), Ghulam Murtaza Chandio with one FIR registered.

Five were arrested in Industrial Area and 2 FIRs were lodged and three were booked by AC Danish in the urban areas while 2 in the sub-urban areas of the federal capital.

Talking to reporter, Deputy...