Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 6: Legal Metrology Department today said that it booked a multinational company manufacturing electronics goods for violating Legal Metrology laws.
In a statement here, a spokesman of the Department said during an inspection of the reputed whole sale dealer in the downtown locality, it was found that the dealer has offered for sale the electronic product namely Hair Straightener which carry the mandatory declarations in violation of Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.
“Under these rules, the mandatory declarations such as MRP, Net Contents, Name and address of manufacturer, name of product, month and year of manufacturer etc. should be prominent and legible so that consumer can easily read them and make a rational choice of purchase,” he said.
The spokesman said that the font size of the mandatory declarations was so small that it was not readable. “The Inspector namely Shabir Ahamad booked the company through the dealer. The matter was taken up with the management of the company through a legal notice. The company confessed the lapse and assured the department that they shall be highly careful in future while printing mandatory declarations on the label in the specified fonts,” he said.
The Deputy Controller, Legal Metrology (Consumer Protection) Kashmir held seven directors of the firm responsible for the lapse and penal sum of Rs 2 lakh was slapped for the same.
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