In a bid to check the malpractice of over charging commodities, the Maharashtra government on Thursday said it is in the process of promulgating an 'Overpricing Act' which will have provision of non-bailable offence for the repeated offenders.

The state government is in the process of drafting the proposal and it will soon be sent for the Cabinet approval, a senior Metrology department official said. "We are in the final leg of drafting the proposal and would be sending it to the government and it will soon come up with the (Overpricing) Act," Sanjay Pandey, Controller of Legal Metrology (Weights and Measures) Department, told PTI.