Control of Prices Act, 1937

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Complaints of overcharging.

36.—(1) Any person may make to the Controller a complaint (in this Part of this Act referred to as a complaint) that a person who carries on a business by way of trade or for the purposes of gain has sold or offered for sale to him in the course of or as part of such business a kind of a commodity at an unreasonably high price.

(2) Every person making a complaint shall furnish to the Controller such particulars as the Controller may require to enable him to determine whether such complaint should or should not be investigated.

(3) A complaint to the Controller may be made by making it to any other officer of the Commission appointed by the Commission to receive complaints on behalf of the Controller.