Most companies are manufacturing and selling hand sanitizers, and showing the maximum retail price of such products to be far above Rs.250/- for 500 mls even after March 21 whereas the Central Government, vide notification dated March 21, 2020, stipulated that all hand sanitizers shall not be priced at more than Rs.100/- per 200 mls.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday took suo-motu notice of this fact.
The Additional Chief Secretaries/ Principal Secretaries/Secretaries in the Departments of Health, and Food and Supplies, of the States of Haryana, Punjab and U.T. Chandigarh, are directed to have ‘raids’ conducted at chemist shops and manufacturing units, to obtain samples of hand sanitizers/hand disinfectants; and wherever those are manufactured after March 2020, showing a maximum retail price above Rs.250/- for 500 mls./more than Rs.100/- for 200 mls.
The Court also noted that a large number of brands of facial masks as have been purchased, are of highly sub-standard quality, where even while tying the masks, the strings attached break off immediately, thereby making the masks unusable. Thus the court also directed that in the ‘raids’ to be conducted, boxes of masks/individual masks shall also be collected by those of the ‘raiding party’.
Read the order:
