MUMBAI
If you feel you’re getting less vegetables for the amount you’ve paid, there is a possibility that your vegetable vendor is cheating you. Last month, the state’s legal metrology department filed around 1,055 cases against hawkers and vendors for malpractices, including short delivery of goods. Some of them were even found to be using stones instead of weights.
“Through the drive, we detected that hawkers and fruit and vegetable vendors were cheating consumers by giving them lesser quantity of goods than what was paid for. They were also found violating rules regarding verifying and stamping of weights and measures in the stipulated time period and not displaying the certificate regarding the stamping,” said an official of the state legal metrology organisation.
Of the 1,055 cases lodged, around 274 offenders were from Mumbai and 128 from Thane. Most of these cases pertain to not getting weights verified and stamped in the stipulated time period. The official said tricks like using a magnet on weighing scales, holding the scale in a tilted position and going in for scales where the two sides were asymmetrical were also employed to cheat consumers.
The official said, “We can act against vendors only if they operate from markets as it is tough to trace hawkers who move around.”
First-time offenders are charged a fine depending on the nature of the offence, and subsequent violations may also attract a jail term.
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