hyderabad sources reported that Telangana Legal Meterology Department booked four restaurants for dual pricing and related violations on Friday. Meanwhile the officials noted that SC granted dual pricing does not apply to all restaurants in the city. Reportedly the restaurants are Pista House, Sangeetha A Lounge Restaurant & Bar, Chaitanya Family Restaurant & Bar, and Hotel Kuchipudi Palav Restaurant. Furthermore these restaurants were found levying GST over MRP despite the MRP being inclusive of all taxes.
Reports added a leading web portal reported that the complaints against the restaurants were filed by K Sai Teja, head of social media and public relation at Forum Against Corruption (FAC), a city based activists group. Further they are booked under various sections of the Legal Meterology Act, 2011. Officials told a leading web portal that these hotels could be levied fines up to Rs 25,000 for their first offence and could be fined higher up to Rs 50,000 for their second offence.
Moreover the restaurants in its defense say that the they can practice dual pricing as the SC has granted it, but the Legal Metrology Department defends that dual pricing is only for institutional consumers who buy packaged commodities bearing a declaration ‘not for retail sale’. Hence such products are only for the use of institution and not for commercial purpose.
