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Court orders auction of seized TCB onion in Chattogram
A Chattogram court has decided to auction 175 kilograms of seized onion that were actually allotted for sale through dealers of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh at fair prices.
Published : 4 Dec 2019, 06:47 PM
Updated : 4 Dec 2019, 06:53 PM
The stock will be kept at the court’s evidence room in the port city until it goes under the hammer on Thursday afternoon.
Police on Monday night arrested four people on charges of selling the TCB onion in the black market and seized the stock at Jahangir Store in the Oxygen area.
The four are TCB dealer Dolon Barua, his associates Dilip Barua and truck driver Emdadul Haque, and customer Mohammad Jahangir.
They landed in jail after police produced them in court on Tuesday.
Police also submitted the onion to the court as evidence, Bayezid Bostami Police Station OC Priton Sarker told bdnews24.com.
On Wednesday, Chattogram Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohiuddin Murad ordered auctioning the lot considering that the kitchen staple is a perishable product, the court’s clerk Abul Kalam Azad told bdnews24.com.
A three-member committee has been constituted for the auction.
The government is selling onion at fair prices through TCB dealers in a bid to control skyrocketing prices.
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