Agora fined for selling stale vegetables

A mobile court in Dhaka has slapped a Tk 100,000 fine on an outlet of Rahimafrooz Superstores Limited for selling stale vegetables.

Led by Executive Magistrate Sifat-e-Jahan, the court also found the Agora super shop in Mohammadpur selling spices at much higher prices on Monday.

A restaurant and seven shops in the Krishi Market were fined a total of Tk 115,000 for selling stale foods and not keeping price list of products.

"Agora has been fined for selling spices at unusually high prices and selling stale vegetables," Jahan told bdnews24.com.

Incidentally, this is not the first time the Rahimafrooz Superstores has been fined.

In June, the BSTI and district administration's mobile court fined the company Tk 150,000 for producing and selling spurious products at its Shimanto Square outlet and fraud.

The same outlet was fined in August last year.

Rahimafrooz Superstores, a subsidiary of the Rahimafrooz Group, has been running Agora chain shops in Bangladesh since 2001.