9 penalised for selling unlicensed sanitisers
A mobile court of Barishal District Administration in association with the Drug Administration seized a huge quantity of fake hand sanitisers and penalised nine persons in the city's Hemayetuddin and Chawkbazar areas yesterday.
The court fined seven retailers a total of Tk 23,000 and seized the sanitisers worth Tk 1 lakh from their possession, confirmed Executive Magistrate Ziaur Rahman who led the drive.
Moreover, it sentenced two people -- Sajol Samadder Rajib (34), and his associate Mostofa Kamal -- to one year's imprisonment each for supplying such sanitisers.
The executive magistrate told The Daily Star that the two convicts confessed to supplying the items after having those delivered from Dhaka by a courier service company.
"When we conducted the mobile court, the retailers let us know about Sajol and Mostofa. Later, we asked them over mobile phone to come here," said Ziaur.
The duo collect those fake items from a man, who is a medicine trader in the capital's Mitford area, Ziaur quoted Rajib as saying.
Auditi Swarna, drug superintendent of the Drug Administration, said "During the raid, we found that the products were being sold in the name of many reputed manufacturing companies."
The operation will continue, she added.
Earlier on June 15, fake medicine and sanitisers worth Tk 10 crore were seized in the city's Sagardi Dargabari area and two people were sentenced to one year's imprisonment each in this regard.
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