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Eateries fined for using toxic colour in iftar items

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
A mobile court yesterday sentenced three restaurant owners in the old part of the city to two days imprisonment and fined them Tk 1,000 each for using toxic colours, chemicals and stale raw foods in different popular iftar items.
The court led by magistrate Md. Rokan Ud Doulah took the punitive measures under Sections 272 and 273 of the Bangladesh Penal Code against Samsuddin Babul, manager of Mohsonia hotel at Samibagh, Mokhlesur Rahman, owner of Café Nizamuddin at Gendaria and Habibullah, manager of Josna hotel at West Jatrabari.
During the drive, the court found the restaurants using stale aborigines
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and edible oil to make beguni and other popular iftaar items.
Earlier the same court also fined a petrol pump a total of Tk 10,000 for cheating people with misleading measurement machines.
The court fined the patrol pump, named A Hai Fuel Station at Hatkhola, under the Weights and Measures Ordinance after finding faulty one of its four dispensing units, which showed measurements that were not accurate.
The court found the dispensing units showed about 50 millilitres less petrol octane in every 10-litre measurement. It also sealed off the faulty dispensing unit of the station.
Meanwhile, 30 mobile courts led by magistrates fined about Tk 8.5 lakh, filing as many as 200 cases for sub-standard and unsafe foods in restaurants and shops, as well as irregularities in transport services in different areas of the cityyesterday.
A mobile court of Kotoali police station sentenced a person to one year of imprisonment for producing adulterated vermicelli.
Another court of the Airport Police Station fined the Zia International Airport canteen Tk 70,000 for selling adulterated foods.
The Ramna Police Station mobile court sentenced a driver to seven days imprisonment for driving a faulty vehicle and having no driving license.
The mobile court of Sabujbagh Police Station fined Arab bakery Tk 30,000 for mixing toxic colour with foods.
In the last three days, the 30 mobile courts have so far collected TK 28,54,650 in fine money, sentenced eight people for different terms and filed 952 cases.
Meanwhile, our Chittagong University correspondent said a mobile court on Wednesday sent seven persons to jail after penalizing them with ten days rigorous imprisonment each for driving buses and trucks with fake licences or no licence.
The court also fined 23 vehicles Tk 72,000 and detained four trucks on different charges during a four-hour drive at the city's Dewanhat intersection.
Besides, the mobile court during the drive arrested a driver of a city special service bus as he tried to flee after hitting a motorbike at Ispahahani intersection. The
court penalized the driver one month of rigorous imprisonment and sent him to jail custody.
Magistrate Mohammad Munir Chowdhury of the Chittagong Port Authority led the mobile court.
Our Rangamati correspondent adds that the date-expired medicine worth about Tk 250,000 was destroyed by the local administration here yesterday after being seized from different areas of the town by the mobile court the day before.
The drive led by magistrate Zahir Raihan also fined three pharmacies Tk 65,000 in Rangamati town for keeping date-expired and sale-prohibited medicine. None, however, were arrested in this regard.
The court fined Joy Pharmacy in Reserve Bazar Tk 50,000 for storing a huge quantity of date-expired medicines for sale. Mir Pharmacy in Puraton Bus Stand area was fined Tk 10,000 for the same offense and Dipen Drug House Tk 5,000 for running the business without official permission, said Md. Nurul Alam, the Drug Superintendent of the district.
"Drives have been launched and it will be continued," he told journalists.