STAR REPORT

The government has strengthened its drive against fuel stockpiling to tackle the ongoing nationwide crisis, with mobile courts in several districts recovering large quantities of fuel from hoarders and fining them.

In Netrokona, a mobile court of the Kendua upazila administration seized 800 litres of petrol from a shop, Krishi Kotha, at Rampur Bazar on Friday night. The court, led by Kendua UNO Md Rifatul Islam, also fined the shop owner Tk 40,000.

The seized petrol was sold yesterday at a fair price to consumers from the shop, the UNO said.

In Jamalpur, a mobile court recovered 2,500 litres of petrol from a filling station in Sadar upazila yesterday and fined the manager of M/s Jui Enterprise Tk 50,000.

According to locals and officials, the station In In

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