Buyers urged to be vigilant while buying gold

Deputy Controller of Legal Metrology section B. Manohar connected Thursday (January 01) asked consumers to beryllium vigilant portion buying golden successful shops successful the backdrop of skyrocketing of the terms of yellowish metal.

Speaking to The Hindu, helium said that the section directed each shops to usage lone physics weighing machines with lone 1 milligram deviation portion weighing gold. He said that the consumers should importune connected the exclusion of value of the precious chromatic since their outgo was little compared to the golden ornaments.

Mr. Manohar said that the section had been conducting inspections successful golden shops, petrol bunks, fertilizer shops and others regularly. He said that 1612 cases were booked betwixt April and November and ₹68.6 lakh collected arsenic compounding interest from traders. Assistant Controller of the section P.V. Ranga Reddy and different officials person been suggested to behaviour inspections successful each areas of Vizianagaram territory to marque traders travel rules and regulations.