Food official, AL man punished
A mobile court yesterday suspended a food official and jailed an Awami League (AL) leader for selling in the black market the rice allocated for Open Market Sale (OMS) programme in Sirajganj town. The food official is Akhtar Hossain, deputy assistant food inspector of the district while the AL leader is OMS dealer Ahsanul Kabir Dulal. Dulal is the organising secretary of Sirajganj town unit of the ruling party. According to our Sirajganj correspondent, a mobile court, led by additional district magistrate Golam Rabbani, caught Akhtar and a representative of the dealer, Khokon, red-handed from a rice trader's shop at Fazlul Huq Road in the town with the OMS rice. The team seized 200 kilogram of OMS rice from their possession. Dulal was awarded one-month rigorous imprisonment.
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