3 fertiliser factories sealed in Savar
A mobile court yesterday sealed three fertiliser factories in Savar for adulterating their products and seized 1,000 sacks of adulterated fertiliser and 100 sacks of dirt and colour from them.
The court jailed owner of Nirob Fertiliser, Shahinul Islam, for one year, fined three owners of Asha Agro Products Tk 4.5 lakh and asked the local police of Deogaon in Rajashan area, where the factories are situated, to file a case against the owner of Tasnia Fertiliser.
Executive Magistrate of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Anwar Pasha, who led the drive, said they found employees of Nirob Fertiliser drying raw materials needed to make fertilisers under the sun in the factory's backyard.
The owners were mixing colours and dirt instead of the essential ingredients needed to make fertilisers and packing the same fertiliser in three different packs labelled “mixed fertiliser”, “zinc” and “natural fertiliser”, he said.
The “mixed fertiliser” had no urea and the “natural fertiliser” had colours mixed in them to fake its looks, he added.
Rab-4 aided the court while officials from Department of Agricultural Extension and Soil Resources Development Institute tested the samples during the five-hour-long drive beginning at 11:00am.
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