Notification of medicines’ price challenged in LHC

Lahore: The notification for fixing the prices of medicines has been challenged in the Lahore High Court (LHC).

According to the details, a petition has been filed by a citizen named Muhammad Aslam, in which the federal government and others have been made parties.

The citizen took the stand in the petition that the caretaker government issued a notification against the law to fix the prices of medicines, after the notification the prices of medicines will increase.

The petition further stated that the government is removing the section of fixing the prices of medicines from the drug act. The caretaker government does not have this power, rather the democratic government is forming which can take this step.

It has also been pleaded by the petitioner that the present notification is against the constitution and law. The court should order suspension of the notification till the final decision of the petition.