STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: Be it price line or weight – a section of unscrupulous businessmen bleeds consumers dry in the State on both counts. Even otherwise, the consumers have to pay through their noses because of the skyrocketing prices. To cap it all, a section of unscrupulous businessmen are out to defraud them by manipulating their weighing instruments, including the digital ones.
Sleuths from the Legal Metrology department (Weights and Measures) inspected various markets in Guwahati on Tuesday, and found manipulation of weighing instruments by a section of businessmen. While cases have been registered against 12 of them, many other unscrupulous traders have also been identified for defrauding consumers.