STAR REPORT

The ongoing fuel crisis has continued to worsen public suffering across the country, even as the government keeps carrying out drives against fuel stockpiling to tackle the situation.

Mobile courts in different districts have recovered large quantities of fuel from hoarders and fined them.

In Gazipur, a mobile court fined Abul Hossain, 65, a fuel trader, Tk 20,000 for illegally stockpiling around 3,000 litres of diesel at a roadside shop along the Dhaka–Tangail highway in Kaliakair upazila early yesterday.

Besides, police seized 880 litres of diesel from a shop at Uttar Salna Porabari area of Gazipur city and detained shop owner Abdur Razzaq, 35, yesterday morning.

In Chattogram, Bangladesh Coast Guard (East Zone) personnel yesterday detained 10 people and seized a fishing trawler from the outer anchorage near Chattogram carrying 22,500 kilogrammes of potatoes and 230 litres of diesel while the items were being smuggled to Myanmar.

In Jashore, a mobile court seized 875 litres of fuel and 850 litres of lubricant from an unauthorised storage facility in Manirampur upazila on Saturday night.

In Bagerhat, a joint team of the district administration, Bangladesh Navy, Coast Guard and police detected a significant discrepancy in fuel stock at the Mongla Oil Installation of Jamuna Oil Company Limited, leading to the temporary “I have

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