Trader fined for selling chemical-mixed mangoes

Staff Correspondent
A mobile court fined a fruit trader Tk 50,000 for selling chemical-mixed mangoes in Fakirapool T&T Colony area in the capital yesterday. The trader is Jamal Sheikh. Executive Magistrate Md Abu Sayeed fined him and destroyed huge mangoes mixed with chemical in the market, said a press release. Dhaka district administration and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) jointly conducted the drives and detected calcium carbide in the mangoes.