A mobile court has seized 150 sacks of urea fertiliser from a trader at Kamarjani port in Gaibandha Sadar upazila and fined him Tk 5,000 for bringing the fertiliser in from outside without authorisation and stocking and selling it, Bangla Tribune reports. The seized urea has been handed to the custody of the Kamarjani union parishad chairman.
The drive, carried out around midnight on Tuesday, 29 September on a tip-off, was led by the Sadar upazila assistant commissioner (land), Nazmus Shahadat Fahim, with officials of the agriculture department. The trader fined, Sanowar Munshi, deals in pesticides at Kamarjani port.
Sadar upazila agriculture officer Rakibul Alam said the fine was imposed for illegally bringing in fertiliser outside the rules. Executive magistrate Nazmus Shahadat Fahim said action was taken because the trader, who is not an authorised dealer, had stocked and was selling a large quantity of fertiliser; such drives would continue in the public interest, and he asked journalists for their cooperation.
During the drive some local journalists were reportedly harassed. A video circulating on social media shows several people surrounding Somoy TV's Gaibandha correspondent Biplob Islam and camera operator Sohel Rana, pushing them and trying to snatch their phones. Rakibul Alam said agriculture officials were present when the journalists were harassed but that officials themselves were not attacked.
The report is by Bangla Tribune's Gaibandha correspondent.
Source: Bangla Tribune
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