Unauthorised oil, saline factories busted
A mobile court aided by Rapid Action Battalion-4 and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution officials seized around 100 bottles of soybean oil and 21,000 packets of dubious oral saline from two unauthorised factories in the city's Mirpur yesterday. Executive Magistrate AHM Anwar Pasha, leading the court, fined the oil factory owner Mohammad Rezaul Karim Tk 1 lakh and ordered Rab to file a case against the saline factory owner Haji Atiar Rahman.
Anwar said Desh Food Product factory in Paikpara used to buy oil from the open market and bottle them to sell at higher prices while the saline factory at South Monipur used fake labels of renowned drug companies.
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