Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 19: Legal Metrology officials have booked a leading school in Srinagar city for distributing and selling text-books and notebooks which did not bear adequate statutory declarations
An official spokesman said that a complaint was received from a parent of a student studying in a school for supplying text-books with tampered price. The field executives of Legal Metrology Department supervised by Deputy Controller, Kashmir, raided the school to check irregularities with respect to mandatory declarations on text-books and note-books.
“On inspection, it was found that the school is engaged in the distribution and selling of books and note-books which did not bear adequate statutory declarations which every text-book and note-book is supposed to bear. The original MRP on text-books of computer science (of Rs.105) was found hidden by the publisher by a sticker and in place a revised price (of Rs. 125) was printed on the books which is illegal under law and attracts penal section,” the spokesman said.
He said MRP once printed on the books and note-books by a publisher cannot be altered by the publisher under law. Stickers are not allowed to make any statutory declaration.
“Moreover, some note-books were seized from the school for not carrying all the statutory declarations. Even MRP on the note-books were found exaggerated.” The school management, distributor and the publisher were booked by the team for the unfair trade practice, he added.
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