A mobile court has fined six medicine shops with Tk1.05 lakh at Haque Market in the port city’s Bahaddarhat area on charge of selling and storing unlicensed food supplements and cattle-fattening drugs.
The court, led by Chittagong District’s Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate Mohammad Ruhul Amin, also seized Tk5,00,000 worthy unlicensed Indian medicines, food supplements and cattle-fattening drugs from the shops, district administration sources said.
The magistrate said a strong syndicate which has mentionable number of members across the city and in the district is selling Indian food supplements and cattle-fattening drugs on the occasion of Eid-ul Azha.
“The flesh of cattle-fattening drug consumed animals is harmful for human health,” he said adding that some ill-motivated doctors also suggested such food supplements and cattle-fattening drugs in exchange of money.
The court fined M/S Shah Amanat Pharmacy with Tk20,000, M/S Jamuna Pharmacy with Tk20,000, M/S Chandgaon Pharmacy with Tk5,000, M/S Shormi Pharmacy with Tk10,000, M/S Idris Pharmacy with Tk30,000, and M/S Azgar Shah Pharmacy with Tk20,000 under different sections of Drug Act-1940, the magistrate said.
“We also warned them while we were also looking into that whether the medicine shops are selling banned medicines,” AC Ruhul added.
