City Reporter: The Directorate of Consumer Rights Protection, Chittagong Division, has raided two establishments in GEC Mor and Kathgarh on various charges, including selling expired medicines and using harmful colors in food. Yesterday, two companies were fined a total of Tk 120,000 in this operation.
It is known that a restaurant named Kachchi Express located at GEC Mor was fined one lakh rupees for using harmful and unauthorized colors in food and storing stale biryani. Another 10,000 rupees was fined based on the written complaint of a customer who repeatedly found hair in the food in the same restaurant. The complainant will get 25 percent of this money as an incentive.
Mohammad Faiz Ullah, deputy director of the divisional office of the organization, led the campaign. He said that on Wednesday, two companies were fined 120,000 taka on various charges. Among them, Maulana Pharmacy, located in the Kathgarh area of the Pandanga police station of the city, was fined 10 thousand rupees for finding a huge amount of expired medicines.
Nasreen Akhter, assistant director of the National Consumer Rights Protection Directorate Chittagong, Rana Deb Nath, and Anichur Rahman were present in the campaign, among others.
