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'Toxic' banana destroyed

2 September 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Pabna

A mobile court on Tuesday seized banana worth Tk 3 lakh for using toxic chemicals. Led by Additional District Magistrate Imam Uddin Kabir, a team raided five stores at Library Bazar. Official sources said the five stores belonged to Rabiul Islam, Agzal Hossain, Farid Hossain, Azat Biswas and Altaf Hossain. The mobile court found that the traders sprayed harmful chemicals to ripen the fruit. The official brought 3-truck full of seized banana to Pabna Abdul Hamid Road in the evening and destroyed them there.