Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 21: Police today said it has arrested three shopkeepers in Awantipora and Pampore towns of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district for selling goods at exorbitant rates.
A police spokesman said in view of the closure of Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, police received complaints that shopkeepers were selling goods especially essential commodities on exorbitant rates.
Accordingly, he said, police launched a special drive against the unscrupulous shopkeepers. “During the market checking six shopkeepers who were selling goods without rate list and at exorbitant rates were arrested in Pampore and Awantipora,” he said.
The spokesman said police registered six cases under essential commodities act against them and seized expired soft drinks and domestic gas cylinders which were being used for commercial purposes as well.
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