Food Adulteration
2 Ctg factory owners sent to jail
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
A mobile court here in its first night-drive against food adulteration on Wednesday unearthed two unauthorised bakery and ghee factories at city's Jalalabad-Kulgaon area under Bayezid Bostami Police Station, and sent the owners of the factories to jail with one-month rigorous imprisonment. The two businessmen are M Mostafizur Rahman, owner of Atique Food Products (New Star Ghee) and M Abul Kashem, a former army man, of Payel Food Products, sources said. The two were also fined Tk 50 thousand and Tk 1 lakh respectively. Special Metropolitan Magistrate Munir Chowdhury of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) during its five-hour drive from 9:00pm on Wednesday unearthed the two illegal factories built in three semi-pucca and tin-shed houses at Baluchhara in Jalalabad-Kulgaon. For the first time, a mobile court conducted its drive at night, sources said. The court seized two thousand tins of substandard ghee and huge quantity of contaminated oil, stale eggs, different kinds of flavour, and perfume from the two factories. The interiors of the factories were also very unhygienic.
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