Polythene bags seized

Law enforcers in a drive yesterday seized a huge quantity of banned polythene bags from two stores at Pabna municipality market. Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Emam Uddin Kabir led the drive aided by the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab). Sources said, acting on a tip-off, the team raided the stores of Manik and Moksed at Daibazar intersection in the municipality market area at noon and seized the banned polythene bags worth about Tk 2 lakh. The mobile court also fined each Tk 10 thousand, said Akhtarul Alam, assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of Rab adding the two were selling banned polythene bags in the district since long.