Sugar probe body report issue is before SC, SHC told.

KARACHI -- A federal law officer informed the Sindh High Court on Tuesday that the matter about the sugar inquiry commission was before the Supreme Court.

In the last hearing, the SHC had restrained the federal authorities from taking action against around 20 sugar mills of Sindh on a report of the sugar inquiry commission till June 30.

When the matter came up for hearing before the two-judge bench headed by Justice Omar Sial on Tuesday, an assistant attorney general informed the bench that the authorities had approached the apex court and sought adjournment till a Supreme Court order on it.

The bench put off the hearing for a date to be fixed by its office later and ruled that the earlier restraining order would remain in field till next hearing.

On June 26, the Mirpurkhas Sugar Mills and around 19 other mills of the province had moved the SHC against the report of the inquiry commission set up against cartelization and price hike of sugar and pleaded to quash the report.

Lawyer for the petitioners Makhdoom Ali Khan contended that the commission was not properly constituted in accordance with the relevant law and it included members who had...

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