Mobile court fines 3 Keraniganj factories Tk 13.75 lakh over fake cosmetics

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) raided three factories in Dhaka's Keraniganj area and destroyed fake and substandard cosmetics worth Tk 10 lakh.

The court also fined the factories Tk 13.75 lakh, a press release of Rab-2, signed by Md Abdullah Al Mamun, assistant superintendent of police and Rab's assistant director (media), said.

The elite force seized some machines used for making these fake products around 10:00pm last night.

The court led by Rab's senior executive magistrate Md Sarwar Alam in association with Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution conducted the drive at three factories in Keraniganj's Atibazar, said a press release today.

The factories were producing the cosmetics with expired raw materials and used labels of known brand names to sell their fake and substandard products.

They were also making these products without BSTI permission, the release added.

Rab will continue such drives in future.