Drugs control, excise and weights and measures officials on Saturday conducted raids on various medicine stores, jewellery showrooms and petrol pumps in the city in order to know if they were using faulty weighing scales.
The police conducted raids on the Popular, Krushnachandra and Om Sai Arogya Niketana medicine shops and collected six samples for test. Additiona Tehsildar Sasantka Patro, Drugs Inspector Priya Ranjan Nayak and Excise Inspector Satyajit Khatua were present.
Similarly, raids were conducted on fish and vegetable shops, the Kargil Petrol pump and two jewellery shops on behalf of the Weights and Measures department. It was found that four shopkeepers were using faulty balances.
Assistant district Collector Binod Kumar Behera, Weights and Measures Assistant Inspector Satyajit Biswal and Sisir Kumar Sahu were present. Raids were conducted on the direction of the district Collector.