IHC reserves verdict in petition against fuel crisis committee.

Byline: SHAHID RAO

ISLAMABAD -- The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Thursday reserved its verdict in a petition of an oil marketing company (OMC) against the newly formed fuel crisis committee.

A single bench of IHC comprising Chief Justice of IHC Justice Athar Minallah conducted hearing of the petition challenging the fuel crisis committee and the ongoing crackdown against the OMCs allegedly responsible for a recent fuel crisis and reserved the judgment after hearing the arguments of all the parties.

During the hearing, the IHC Chief Justice remarked that the government has only ordered action against mafias and hoarders and the oil companies should not be worried about the investigation if they have not done anything wrong.

A lawyer representing an oil company said that they are being called 'mafia' by the government. To this, Justice Athar said that they can then just tell the government to call you by a different name.

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The petitioner's counsel prayed to the court to set aside the Ministry of Petroleum's June 8 and 9 notifications announcing tough government action against all OMCs for creating artificial shortage of petroleum products in the country.

He also requested the high court to stop the government from taking any action against the company till final adjudication of the case.

The petitioner's counsel informed the court that the federal minister constituted this committee on June 8 for the action against hoarding of petrol. He adopted that under the OGRA...

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