A mobile court on Monday jailed and fined a total of 10 people for manufacturing and selling counterfeit medicines and hand sanitizers in Dhaka.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) sentenced 10 people – employees and owners of Al Shefa Pharmacy and Health and Housing Distribution – to different jail terms for the production and sale of fake hand sanitizers, medicines and operating without a license.
They were also fined Tk26 lakh in total.
RAB-3 Executive Magistrate Palash Kumar Basu confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
He said: “Al Shefa Pharmacy – a well-known drugstore in Mohammadpur – has four branches and none of them has any licence.
“They were selling fake, date expired and illegally imported medicines and banned sexual stimulants. They even had a banner of the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) on their store to dupe people.”
“Later in the day, we raided Health and Housing Distribution – a manufacturing factory based in Mohammadpur. They were manufacturing fake hand sanitizers.
“They were also producing Savlon antiseptic liquid with fake ACI branding labels,” he added.
The authorities, during the drive, also seized a huge quantity of counterfeit medicines, hand sanitizers and other medical products.
