Mobile court seizes 80,000 sacks of rice hoarded in Chittagong

A mobile court in Chittagong has seized 80,000 sacks of rice weighing around 4,000 tonnes stashed away illegally at a warehouse.

Chittagong Bureaubdnews24.com
Published : 21 Sept 2017, 04:01 PM
Updated : 21 Sept 2017, 04:01 PM

Masud and Brothers had stockpiled the rice at the warehouse of Ahmed Trading at Sagarika in the port city for a long time, Executive Magistrate Syed Morad Ali, who headed the court on Thursday, told bdnews24.com.   

They violated a ban on the storing of the food grain for more than a month, he added. 

The court fined Mohammad Tareque, the manager of the warehouse, Tk 50,000 besides seizing the rice, the magistrate said.