Found an interesting article on the net. Publishing here as it is.
[Source: http://dawn.com/2012/07/26/samosa-justice/]
THE days of the cheap samosa are over. While the savoury
little delight is consumed with great relish by Pakistanis around the
year, sales of the samosa skyrocket during Ramazan as it is a staple of
the iftar spread. However, the Supreme Court has set aside a
notification of the Punjab government regulating the price of samosas.
As reported in the media, in 2009 the Lahore local government had fixed
the price of the crispy delight at Rs6 a samosa. The local government’s
machinery took action against some shopkeepers found to be selling more
expensive samosas. However, not satisfied with the price set for their
product, the bakers and sweet-makers of the Punjab went to court. When
the Lahore High Court turned down their petition, the bakers appealed to
the Supreme Court. They felt the samosa did not fall within the purview
of the Punjab Foodstuffs (Control) Act, 1958, hence the government
could not fix its prices, a notion the apex court seemed to agree with.
While the commercial bakers will rejoice at the verdict, others
waiting for justice in Pakistan’s ever-clogged judicial system may be
wondering when their turn will come. With a question of interpretation
of a law at stake, the Supreme Court was the ultimate forum for
resolving the matter, however trifling it may appear to the average
citizen. The question, then, is whether the superior judiciary should
devise some rules and a system to fast-track more urgent and serious
matters for justice rather than spend valuable time on a regulation that
is virtually unenforceable in any case — the proof of that being a
visit to any market in Lahore where samosas are openly being sold for
much higher than Rs6. Samosa-makers may be happy and another case struck
from the superior judiciary’s docket, but was it the court’s best use
of time at this stage?
