Law enforcers have seized 87,058 litres of edible oil illegally stored in warehouses in Kushtia, Pabna, Gazipur and Rajshahi districts on Tuesday.
In Kushtia, a team of Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) raided a shop named M/s Food Products in the town and seized 40,000 litres of edible oil.
It also fined the shop owners Tk 30,000.
Besides, the DNCRP team also fined MA Store Tk 1000 and Sabuj Sathi Store Tk 6,000 for selling edible oil at a high price.
Crackdown on hoarding: 87,058 litres of edible oil seized in 4 dists
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In Pabna, another DNCRP team seized 18000 litres of edible oil from a warehouse of Shyamal Bazar Store and fined its owner Shyamal Datta Pal Tk 20,000 in Ishwardi upazila of the district in the morning.
In Gazipur, a team of Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) seized 2,058 litres of soyben oil from a warehouse at Board Bazar in Gazipur city on Tuesday.
The team led by its assistant directors Mahbubur Rahman and Abdul Jabbar, raided the warehouse of M/s Monir Traders in Board Bazar area and seized the edible oil.
Later, they also fined Monir Hossain, owner of the warehouse, Tk two lakh for hoarding edible oil.
The seized oil was sold at Tk 560 per five litres in the local market with the help of law enforcers.
In Rajshahi, police seized nearly 27,000 litres of edible oil illegally stored in two warehouses in Rajshahi and arrested one of its owners.
On a tip-off, a team of cops raided the two warehouses in the Taherpur Bazar area of Rajshahi’s Bagmara upazila on Monday night and made the seizure.
“The seized oil includes 19,176 litres of soybean oil. The remaining was mustard oil,” said IK Alam, additional superintendent of Rajshahi district police.
“The arrestee took the state-owned godown on rent. He has been identified as Shahidul Islam Swapan, 40, a resident of Cheokhali village,” the officer said.
“Later we seized another 31 drums of soybean oil from a nearby godown owned by Swapan’s brother Rafiqul,” he said. “His brother, however, managed to escape.”
Legal action will be taken against the arrestee and the two godowns have been sealed, said ASP Alam.
Source: United News of Bangladesh