The National Security Intelligence (NSI) and the SRB raided factories making fake fertiliser and pesticide in Mohadevpur, Naogaon, jailing one man and fining two factories Tk 1 lakh each.
The raid at Shibganj Bazar in the upazila was led by Assistant Commissioner (Land) Jannatul Naim from early morning until a quarter to 11am on Saturday (7 November).
After the death of Motar Hossain of Shibganj village in the upazila, his two sons, Mohammad Shahinur Alam and Delowar Hossain, have run two separate factories, both named SD Agrovet. On charges of producing fake fertiliser and pesticide, Shahinur’s wife, Hasnat Jahan Papia, was fined Tk 1 lakh under the Pesticides Act in the absence of Shahinur, the owner of SD Agrovet. His brother Delowar, who runs another factory under the same name, was sentenced to one month’s simple imprisonment and fined Tk 1 lakh.
Upazila agriculture officer Hossain Mohammad Ershad said: “Although they had approval to make Borun and organic fertiliser, they could not show any papers for making cypermethrin or cockroach-killing chalk. Samples of their approved products have been collected to check their quality and will be sent for testing.”
Assistant Commissioner (Land) Jannatul Naim said: “The owners of the two factories have been fined Tk 2 lakh in total and one of them has been sentenced to one month’s simple imprisonment. Such drives will continue in the interest of farmers.”
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