Last Updated on December 10, 2021 at 8:44 pm
Taking strong note of a complaint from a tourist namely Sumeet Agarwal who had leveled serious allegations of malpractice against M/s Shahjee & Co and his failure to provide any satisfactory reply, the Director Handicrafts & Handloom, Kashmir canceled the registration issued in favor of M/s Shahjee & Co, Bishember Nagar Srinagar and directed the dealer to desist from carrying out the business of the notified handicraft items till further orders.
Agarwal, who had visited Srinagar in the month of September 2021 was sold machine made carpets by M/s Shahjee & Co, Bishember Nagar, Srinagar.
The tourist had leveled serious allegations of malpractice against M/s Shahjee & Co that he had indulged in misbranding of the machine made Carpets and passed on the same to him as genuine hand knitted Kashmir Carpets.
The complaint had mentioned that even those machine made carpets had reached him in a damaged condition after he placed his order with the concerned dealer.
The Department of Handicrafts & Handloom, Kashmir after issuing the show cause notice found the reply of the dealer unsatisfactory and devoid of any merit.
Keeping in view the serious allegations of malpractice leveled against the dealer and his failure to provide any satisfactory reply with regard to sale of machine made carpet to the concerned tourist in place of hand knotted carpets, the Director Handicrafts & Handloom, Kashmir in exercise of the powers vested upon him under section (6) & (7) of Jammu Kashmir Tourist Trade Act has canceled the registration issued in favour of M/s Shahjee & Co, Bishember Nagar Srinagar and has asked the dealer to desist from carrying out the business of the notified handicraft items till further orders.
