LMD penalizes surgical company

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 7: The field executives of Legal Metrology Department (LMD) penalized Delhi based surgical company for violating Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rule, 2011 and booked a medical shop at Soura for sale of Adhesive Osteoplasts in per-packed form which carried the Maximum Retail Price of Rs. 450 on the sticker.
The retailer provided the invoice of the stockiest and stockiest in return provided the bill of company. The legal notice was served to the company for affixing the sticker and the company confessed the lapse of affixing the sticker on the product.
Under law, it is a serious offence to declare MRP on the sticker. MRP on product should be printed. A penal sum of Rs 20,000 was slapped on the company for the lapse.