Twelve alleged spurious medicine businessmen were fined and given different terms of imprisonment by a mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion in the capital on Monday. A RAB-3 mobile court, led by executive magistrate Sharif Md Forhad Hossain, conducted a drive against fake herbal medicine
shops at Gulistan and arrested 10 fake herbal businessmen.
The court fined them Tk 1 lakh each and sentenced six of them to 10 days of imprisonment.
Later, the court conducted another drive at Nawabganj in Dhaka and arrested two people on allegation of selling spurious herbal medicine. The court fined and sentenced them to different terms.
Executive magistrate Sharif Md Forhad Hossain said the accused used to produce and sell illegal, fake and substandard herbal medicines.
Banned and substandard medicines are available in the areas at low prices and the sellers woo the buyers by giving false assurance, said Forhad Hossain.
He said mainly they were targeting the youth and allured them with half nude photos.
-With New Age input
