DM suspends licence of fair price shop

Kanpur: District magistrate Brahmadeo Ram Tiwari on Friday suspended the license of a fair price shop, owned by woman licensee Asha Maral and issued show cause notice to her to explain why action should not be taken against her.
The ration card holders of Asha Maral’s shops had lodged a complaint against her that instead of using valid weights she weighed grocery by bricks and use bottles to distribute grain..
When some mediapersons cross-checked the allegations, the woman license holder told them that she weighed grain by using brick and none could take action against her as she had managed the authorities concerned.
The news and the complaint forced the district supply officer to conduct an inquiry. The supply inspector allegedly colluded with the license holder and camouflaged the report. The senior supply officer rejected the supply inspector’s report and conducted an inquiry himself in compliance of an order given by ADM (civil supplies) Basant Agarwal.
The senior supply officer met the ration card holders and found that the charges levelled against the shop owner were correct. The district supply officer then recommended to the DM to suspend license and quota of the fait price shop. District supply officer Akhilesh Kumar Srivastava stated that the charges levelled against licensee Asha Maral were correct.
She would not only disburse grain less in quantity but used to charge extra money from consumers.