A mobile court in the capital raided a homeopathy medicine manufacturer and importer named Pragoti Homeo Lab in Khilgaon Taltala area. The court fined two of its employees and issued an arrest warrant against the owner for manufacturing a few items of medicine without approval from Drug Administration (DA), not having manufacturing date on 42 types of its products and for not having any DA approved pharmacist.

"Although homeopathy medicines are not required to have expiry dates as these fall under alcohol category, it is mandatory for these to have manufacturing dates on," said Rokon-ud-Dowla, magistrate of the mobile court.

The court fined pharmacist Farid Uddin Ahmed and another employee Mozahar Hossain with Tk 1 lakh or 1 year imprisonment and issued a warrant against owner of the lab Dr Mosleuddin as he remained absconding.

PATUAKHALI
Joint forces seized a huge quantity of date expired medicines from a clinic, Mother and Child Welfare Centre, and sealed off another named Abdullah Clinic for not having valid authorisation documents and insufficient human resources.

The forces led by magistrate Abdur Rahman Bapari found cartons full of expired medicines from Mother and Child Welfare Centre, reports our correspondent.

The forces arrested its staff Aleya Begum, 45, for taking bribe from a patient and food supplier Tomal, 35, for supplying inadequate food to patients.

JESSORE
The joint forces seized over 1.13 lakh sacks of banned FMP fertiliser worth Tk 3 crore from five warehouses at Noapara in Abhaynagar upazila, reports UNB.

The forces seized more than 71 thousand sacks of FMP fertiliser from two warehouses of Ajit Majumdar and over 42 thousand sacks of the same fertiliser from three warehouses owned by Matiar Rahman.

KHULNA
The joint forces seized 810 sacks of spoilt rice from a warehouse owned by MB Enterprise on Station Road. They also seized 700 sacks of spoilt wheat and nine sacks of adulterated turmeric from Madina Trading located on the same road, reports our correspondent.

In another drive, a team of BSTI officials recovered more than eight thousand bottles of Royal Tiger energy drink without BSTI approval from the house of Abdul Jabbar.