Consumers demand action against vendors who create artificial demand at the Central Market
Citizens and residents have expressed shock over the fraudulent methods allegedly used by vegetable and fruit traders at the Central Market to increase prices during the holy month of Ramadan. Tribune carried a report titled ‘Price rise secret revealed’ uncovering how artificial demand was being created in the market by dumping loads of fresh fruits and vegetables into garbage bins.
Citizen Abbas Mansoor from Kawara said the act by traders was totally “un-Islamic”. “The prices of fruits and vegetables began to rise all of a sudden. This is nothing but causing harm to consumers – haram. These people should be treated as criminals and must be given adequate punishment.These traders are doing great injustice to the farmers as they are discarding their hard work and fatigue to produce these fruits and vegetables".
Another citizen Jafar Abbas said the trader has every right to do anything with the goods he purchased. “These things can’t be handled in a legal framework and these traders, I believe, know this very well. But what they don’t realise is that it is an inhuman act. Totally immoral, haram and un-Islamic.”
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