LMD J&K Slaps Fine Of Rs 1 Lac Upon The Prominent PenDrive Manufacturing Company “SanDisk”

Jammu, Dec 14: Legal Metrology Department under Assistant Controller (I/C Deputy Controller Enforcement Kashmir) Muzafar Wani today compounded a case in which a Pen Drive manufacturing company was booked for violation of Section (30)a, 36(2) of Legal Metrology Act 2009.   The department took cognizance of the violation in which the claimed 64GB PenDrives were sold to the consumers when the actual capacity was only 57.2 GBs. It amounted to the shortage of quantity promised by about 6.8GBs.   The department served the Legal Notice to Sandisk International and importing agency Redington India Ltd. and the response was received from the company through their battery of lawyers.   After the innitial viciliation when they tried to justify their stand on some technical issues they finally pleaded to compound the offence departmentally rather than sending it to the court of law.   They also agreed that once the existing stock will get exhaust from the market the new stock will be as per the legal metrology norms.   The PenDrives manufactured by the other companies like Sony, HP etc are also under scanner and they too will be dealt under law if found in contravention of the Act. .