Sugar crisis: LHC verdict challenged in SC
09 September, 2009
ISLAMABAD: The sugar mill owners Wednesday filed a petition in Supreme Court (SC) against the verdict given by Lahore High Court (LHC), challenging the jurisdiction of LHC.
Farooq Amjad Mir Advocate filed the petition on the part of sugar mills owners with the opinion that the issue of sugar price does not come under the jurisdiction of the high court.
The petition said that a high court cannot deliver a verdict without hearing the viewpoints of the parties to the case.
According to petition, the price which LHC mentioned on page-13 of its verdict is different from the price mentioned on page-14.
The petition has made party in this petition the federal government, Punjab government, Finance Ministry, Ministry of Industry and Production and Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).
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