City Reporter: A Basket Supershop has been fined 1 lakh 30 thousand by the district administration’s mobile court for selling rotten vegetables, fruits, and repackaged and selling stale fish and meat with a new date level in the super shop and storing stale food in the refrigerator in a dirty environment in the restaurant.
Assistant Commissioner (Land) and Executive Magistrate Arafat Siddiqui of Kattali Circle conducted this operation on Zakir Hossain Road under the Khulshi police station of the city on Tuesday (October 1) afternoon. Officials of the Department of Environment were also present. Members of CMP Khulshi police station were present.
During the operation, the operation manager, Md. Mizanur Rahman, was arrested for storing and using 31 kg of banned polythene in Basket Super Shop.
The supermarket was found to be fraudulently selling rotten vegetables, repackaged fruit, and stale fish and meat with current-day tags. Due to the apprehension of serious financial and health damage to the consumer, the offense was accepted on the basis of the confession of the accused.
As the allegations were found to be true and the accused’s crime was discovered, Md. Mizanur Rahman was fined Tk 10,000 under the Bangladesh Environment Protection Act, 1995 (amended 2010) and Tk 1 lakh under the Consumer Rights Protection Act, 2009, respectively. At the same time, 31 kg of polythene bags were seized, and the responsible officer of the Department of Environment was instructed to dispose of them.
Later, the dream supershop was raided. There, necessary instructions are given by checking the price and quality of daily necessities, fish, meat, fruits, etc. However, its owner, Nizam Uddin, was fined Tk 20,000 under the Consumer Rights Protection Act, 2009, for storing and selling stale food in the refrigerator in an unsanitary and dirty environment at the Imperial Cafe and Restaurant located inside Sapna Super Shop.
Kattali Circle Assistant Commissioner (Land) and Executive Magistrate Arafat Siddiqui said that the crime was accepted on the basis of the accused’s confession because of the apprehension of severe financial and health damage to the consumer. Besides, stale food is stored in refrigerators in an unhygienic, dirty environment in Imperial cafes and restaurants. For these complaints, the institutions were fined 1 lakh 30 thousand taka. District Administration, Chittagong campaign will continue in public interest.
