Fourteen business outlets in the capital, including the restaurants selling iftar items, were fined Tk 3.85 lakh for poor hygiene, giving short measures and charging more than the government fixed prices.
Four mobile courts of the Dhaka district administration conducted drives in the Gulshan, Moghbazar, Kakrail, Malibagh and Fakirapool area with the assistance of the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution and law enforcers.
Executive magistrates Mohammad Al Amin, Rahima Khatun, Abu Sayeed and Shakil Ahmed led the drives.
One of the mobile courts, led by Al Amin, found Samarkhand Restaurant at Gulshan preparing jilapi, a food item, with mixture of sodium hydrosulfide.
The court realised Tk 1 lakh from the restaurant management and jailed the jilapi maker Malu Miah, 50, for a month.
The court also seized 500 grams of sodium hydrosulfide from the restaurant.
The court fined Khusbu Restaurant at Gulshan Tk 50,000 after rat's stool and ant's eggs were found inside the utensils used for selling halim.
The courts fined two restaurants, a coffee shop and two bakeries Tk 1.1 lakh for poor hygiene, storing stale food and producing food items without BSTI licences.
The court also sealed a factory of Hazi Bakery at Bara Moghbazar for producing breads, cake and biscuits without the permission from the BSTI.
The other courts fined three fruits sellers—Mohammmad Ali and Sukkur Ali at Malibagh intersection and Amir Hossain at Fakirapool— Tk 5,000 for giving short measures.
Meanwhile, the national consumer rights protection directorate conducted drive, led by it deputy director ABM Badiuzzaman, at Karwanbazar and fined three business outlets — Chowdhury Store, Sohel General Store and Jabbar Store — Tk 25,000 for selling sugar and soybean oil higher than the government-fixed price.
Source : New Age
