LAHORE, Oct 16: Reacting to a report, ‘Notice issued to ex-PM’s sugar mills’ (Oct 15), the Chaudhry Sugar Mills Limited said the administrator of the market committee, Gojra, has given false and exaggerated figures. “The administrator was wrong when he said an amount of Rs20,652,666 was outstanding against the mills. This is rather an attempt to defame the company.”

Under the government rules, it said, the mills was bound to pay the market fee on the sugar cane purchased from notified areas to the respective market committee. Due to the shortage of cane in company’s gate areas, it had to procure the crop from other areas like Jaranwala, Faisalabad, Aminpur, Jhang, Kamalia, Samundri etc. for crushing. Therefore, market fee as calculated by the market committee was illegal.

“The mills reserves its rights to take the market committee, Gojra, to court,” it said.