Three illegal brick kilns fined Tk 1.5 lakh in Ctg
A mobile court yesterday realised a total of Tk 1.5 lakh as fines from three brick kilns for operating within two kilometres of Kattali reserve forest in Chittagong and without licences and environment clearance certificates.
Among the three, KML-1 and ARC Kiln are situated at Kattali in the port city while KML-2 at Latifpur of Sitakunda.
Following a report on the three illegal kilns published in The Daily Star on January 13, the drive was conducted, said officials of the Department of Environment.
After the owners paid the fines, the court officials released two labourers of the three kilns whom they detained as all the other staff fled seeing them approaching.
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