Officials of the Legal Metrology Department conducted raids on the super markets and malls in Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam on Saturday and found several violations. They booked cases against the managements for deceiving the customers.
In all, eight teams under the supervision of Joint and Deputy Controllers inspected the stocks in the malls and observed violations under the Legal Metrology Packaged Rules and for allegedly using unverified weighing machines.
The managements were cheating the customers and as many as 156 cases were registered against the owners in the two places, said Legal Metrology Director General and Controller K.R.M. Kishore Kumar.
