Incident Reports

Pharmacies in-front of Bir Hospital fined on charge of black marketing

2020-05-24

Bagmati, Kathmandu, Kathmandu

A team of Department of commerce supplies and Consumers' right protection conducted a raid on Sunday in the pharmacies in-front of Bir Hospital after getting a complaint.  The monitoring committee had fined two lakhs rupees to Hanuman Pharmacy, Megan Pharmacy, and  Progress Pharmacy on the charge of taking higher prices in the N-95 mask.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Black Marketing
Weapons None
Primary Cause Issues related to commodity availability, prices, and subsidies
Secondary Cause Irregularities in Commodity Market
Actor 1 - Number of people 3
Actor 1 - Affiliations Private company
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Citizen/Individuals
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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