Six eateries and a bulb manufacturing factory was fined an accumulated total of Tk1 lakh yesterday by two separate mobile courts in Chittagong city on charges of operating business without any legal documents.
Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate Tamim Al Yiameen of Chittagong district administration led the court which conducted drive at six eateries in Agrabad area from 11am to 3pm.
The executive magistrate said the mobile court fined five eateries with Tk15,000 each while Haji Biriyani was fined Tk10, 000 for selling food in unhygienic environment and running the businesses without having any license from Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute (BSTI).
Meanwhile, another mobile court, led by Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate Suraiya Akhter Sweety of Chittagong district administration, fined JHD Electrical Industries Ltd with Tk10,000 for producing substandard energy saving bulbs and also operating without a BSTI license, said a BSTC press release.
The mobile court seized a large amount of substandard energy saving bulbs from the factory, added the press release.
