Ban on selling of combat dresses in J

Jammu, Sep 4 (UNI) The Jammu and Kashmir government has imposed certain regulations and restrictions on the private parties dealing with the procurement, storage and sale, stitching of army combat dresses and readymade combat dresses.

District Magistrate Jammu Hirdesh Kumar Singh, while exercising powers vested with him under section 144 of the CrPC, has imposed the ban. ''No unauthorised person shall procure or purchase, store, stitch, sell army combat dresses. All authorised private firms dealing in such articles shall immediately inform in writing to the nearest police station the fact of their carrying on of this occupation,'' the order said.

He said the time limit for informing the nearest police station will be seven days from the date of issuance and publication of this order. And it shall be mandatory for all the authorised firms dealing in such articles to maintain registers giving details of the items received with quantity, date of sale, items sold, quantity of the items sold and the address/identity of the party to whom sold.

The DM further issued instructions that all such authorised firms will sell such articles to bona fide members of the armed forces of the Union of India after verifying their identities.

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