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Hence 138 factories and food points were sealed while cases were also registered against 99 adulterators.

The Bench suggested an amendment to the law after the Uttar Pradesh government said they faced a hurdle in prosecuting adulterators under the IPC and seeking their life imprisonment after the Allahabad High Court ruled in 2010 that the IPC cannot be invoked when the FSSA should prevail.

Whately claimed in his Elements of Rhetoric that such "sophistical tricks of the Art [of Rhetoric]" were actually akin to those tricks used by "the adulterators of food or of drugs" (v).

KARACHI -- Commissioner Karachi Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui Said on Sunday that the administration was taking stringent and tansparent measures to make the campaign against adulterators and profiteers successful.

DCO Nasir Jamal said that stern action would be taken agaisnt the adulterators which were playing with the lives of citizens.

The bench suggested an amendment to the law after the Uttar Pradesh government said it faced a hurdle in prosecuting adulterators under the Indian Penal Code and seeking life imprisonment after the Allahabad High Court ruled in 2010 that IPC could not be invoked when the FSSA should prevail.

LAKKI MARWAT -- Deputy Commissioner Syed Zafar Ali Shah took serious notice of complaints about adulteration in locally made spices and milk supplied from Punjab and directed the officials of administration and food department to take action against the adulterators.

In August 2003, Federal Cabinet increased the punishment for adulterators to 25 years imprisonment.

On the temporal side why shall not our governments at various levels enforce deterrent punishments to adulterators initially through legislation, and latterly through setting up a machinery that will be efficient enough to detect foulplay where ever it exists?

KHANEWAL -- District coordination Officer Khalid Mahmood Sheikh has directed the officials concerned to take strict action against adulterators and unwholesome food sellers to make the ongoing anti-adulteration drive a success.

He said the administration would deal profiteers, stockists and adulterators with iron hands and the operation would continue till its logical end.

Terming the situation " very very serious" the apex court said it would be foolish to go lenient on adulterators as no grievous illness or death is being reported immediately after someone has drinks milk laced with white paint, caustic soda, detergent, shampoo, urea, starch and blotting paper.

As result, the adulterators and bogus businessmen seemed to have found a free market for selling life saving drugs, medicines and other products with fake labels and name of companies.

The DCO warned the adulterators that recent amendments made in food laws would be enforced strictly and violators would be punished without any leniency.

Commissioner Karachi Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui in a statement on Saturday said that the action was taken against profiteers, hoarders and adulterators by the duty Magistrates during last 24 hours in different areas of the city.