ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court is set to hear today a case pertaining to the issue of non-payment of prices to sugarcane farmers.
The court has summoned the owners of all sugar mills, after the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar heard a suo moto case on the 24th of April regarding the same issue.
In a hearing on the 19th of February, farmers had informed the court that owners of sugarcane mills were not buying the sugarcane at the rate of Rs 180 per maund, which they believed was the reason for a lot of sugarcane going to waste.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen, one of the mill owners who have been summoned, claimed that the Punjab government was behind the crisis.
He also claimed that his mill was buying sugarcane at the rate of Rs 180 per maund, and hinted that other mills should also follow his example.
