Judiciary is not responsible to control the Prices, SC

Judiciary is not responsible to control the Prices, SC

The Supreme Court has said controlling the prices of essential commodities in the country was not the job of the judiciary. As stated by Indlaw news.com

A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justices Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan made the remarks over the hearing of a PIL seeking directions towards the Centre and UP government to create immediate arrangements for lifting 11 lakh tonnes of imported raw sugar, lying at Kandla Port in Gujarat, and send it to the sugar mills to help it fit for human consumption.

The petition was filed by Homemakers Front, an organisation of housewives blaming The Union government for all round increase in the prices of essential commodities. Alleged that UP government was creating problems the imported sugar doesn't reach sugar mills.

The apex Court advised D K Garg, counsel to make the petitioner, to approach the Gujarat High Court for appropriate relief but when Mr Garg didn't agree the apex Court dismissed the petition