3 Keraniganj factories fined Tk 13.75 lakh

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has raided three factories in Dhaka's Keraniganj area and destroyed fake and substandard cosmetics worth Tk 10 lakh.

During the drive on Thursday night, the court also fined the factories Tk 13.75 lakh, a press release of Rab-2, signed by Md Abdullah Al Mamun, assistant superintendent of police and Rab's assistant director (media), said yesterday.

The elite force also seized some machines used for making these fake products.

The court led by Rab's senior executive magistrate Md Sarwoer Alam in association with Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution conducted the drive in Keraniganj's Atibazar,it added.

The factories were producing the cosmetics with expired raw materials and used labels of known brand names to sell their fake and substandard products. They were also making these products without BSTI permission.

Rab will continue such drives in future, the release said.