A Supreme Court lawyer Sunday filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directives for the authorities concerned to enact a formalin control law in the upcoming parliament session starting September 12.
In the petition, lawyer Eunus Ali Akond sought the highest punishment death penalty to the persons involved in using the life-threatening chemical with food items.
The petition urges the court to direct the authorities concerned to check imported goods for formalin and those to provide every market with equipment to check the use of the chemical in food items.
Secretaries of the law, home, health and environment ministries, the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution and the inspector general of police were made the defendants in the petition.