Kohat TMA seals private fruit and vegetable market.

KOHAT -- Officials of the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) on Thursday sealed the operational private Shehbaz Gul Fruit and Vegetable Market located in the vicinity of city, for third time.

Tehsil municipal officer Hamid Mansoor told this scribe that they had cancelled the licence of the market in 2018 after which its owner got a stay order till Sept 25, 2019. He said that the owner was asked to fulfil all the prerequisites within a month, but he could not so. He said that there was a conspiracy going on to close down the government market which he would not allow.

Answering a question that hundreds of traders were getting cheaper items on their doorstep from the private vegetable market in the city, he said that if this plea was accepted then all the people would open markets in the city, which was unacceptable.

It may be mentioned here that the government market operated in the city for 33 years, but after expiry of the lease period the TMA did not renew it and moved it outside the city.

When contacted, owner of the private vegetable...