UNB, Chittagong :
A mobile court here on Sunday fined four cloth shop owners Tk 160,000 at Terirbazar in the city for selling cloths of military, paramilitary forces and law enforcers.
A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) led by major SM Sudipto Shahin, deputy commanding officer of RAB-7, along with executive magistrate Anisur Rahman, conducted drives at different shops of the area in the afternoon and seized around 5,000 gauges of cloths from four shops.
Later, the mobile court fined the owners of ‘Baghdad Traders’ and ‘Unique Fabrics’ Tk 50,000 each, while the owner of ‘Taher Traders’ Tk 40,000 and that of ‘Mohorom Cloth Store’ Tk 20,000, said SM Sudipto Shahin.
A RAB official said it is illegal to sell and use cloth patterns of military and law enforcers, but the shop owners in the area are selling the cloths of Army, Border Guard Bangladesh, Coast Guard and Armed Police Battalion (APBN).
“We had information that terrorists and militants of the country’s hill tracts collect military cloths from shops at Teribazar,” the official added.
A mobile court here on Sunday fined four cloth shop owners Tk 160,000 at Terirbazar in the city for selling cloths of military, paramilitary forces and law enforcers.
A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) led by major SM Sudipto Shahin, deputy commanding officer of RAB-7, along with executive magistrate Anisur Rahman, conducted drives at different shops of the area in the afternoon and seized around 5,000 gauges of cloths from four shops.
Later, the mobile court fined the owners of ‘Baghdad Traders’ and ‘Unique Fabrics’ Tk 50,000 each, while the owner of ‘Taher Traders’ Tk 40,000 and that of ‘Mohorom Cloth Store’ Tk 20,000, said SM Sudipto Shahin.
A RAB official said it is illegal to sell and use cloth patterns of military and law enforcers, but the shop owners in the area are selling the cloths of Army, Border Guard Bangladesh, Coast Guard and Armed Police Battalion (APBN).
“We had information that terrorists and militants of the country’s hill tracts collect military cloths from shops at Teribazar,” the official added.
