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Fake fertiliser seized

3 November 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Pabna

A mobile court on Monday seized 70 bags of adulterated fertiliser from Santhia market area and fined two shop owners Tk 2 lakh each. Additional district magistrate (ADM), Pabna, led the mobile court assisted by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-12). Sources said, the team raided Santhia market in the afternoon and seized 30 bags of spurious urea from Akbar Ali's shop and 40 bags from Md Mokter Hossain's shop. The fake fertiliser was later destroyed.