Metrology dept seizes goods worth Rs 14.9 lakh

VASCO: The Vasco and Margao legal metrology departments conducted a joint drive at the Sancoale and Verna industrial estates on Wednesday and Tuesday, respectively, and seized goods altogether worth Rs 14.9 lakh. Two cases were registered.

As many as 29,568 packages of drinking water and 7,460 packets of palm oil, altogether estimated to be worth Rs 11.6 lakh, were seized from Sancoale industrial estate in Zuarinagar.
From the Verna Industrial Estate, 2,768 packages of wall mount LED and LCD brackets worth Rs 3.3 lakh were confiscated.
The water and oil packages did not have packer registration certificates as required under the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, and the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, sources explained.
A case was also booked against a packer and importer of an MNC dealing in televisions at Verna. The wall mount brackets were seized as the size of the commodity was found to be declared in non-metric units, the month and year of manufacture was marked in rubber stamp, and packing lacked a packer registration certificate as required under the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules 2011, and Legal Metrology Act, 2009.