A Rapid Action Battalion mobile court fined owners of three grocery shops Tk 1.50 lakh for illegally stockpiling and selling of soybean oil at exorbitant prices in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area on Monday.
An operational team of RAB-3 got information through intelligence sources that some grocery traders in the North Jatrabari area have been hoarding huge quantities of edible oil and selling the kitchen item to the general public at Tk 34 per litre more than the price fixed by the government.
Based on the secret information, the team conducted a mobile court at North Jatrabari from 11:50am to 1:50pm in the presence of Abdul Jabbar Mandal, assistant director of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP).
During the drive, Executive Magistrate Md Mazharul Islam, fined the owners of Aditi Traders, M/S Sifat Trading and M/S Mintu Store Tk 50,000 each.
The mobile court also found stocks of 15,000 litres of soybean oil in those shops, said Bina Rani Das, additional SP (operations and intelligence wing) of the RAB-3 headquarters.
