A mobile court has permanently sealed the kitchen of Dwarik Bhandar, an old sweet shop in Natore town's Lalbazar, for making and storing kachagolla, the district's GI-registered sweet, in dirty and unhygienic conditions. The owner was sentenced to one year's rigorous imprisonment. About four maunds of sweets were seized and destroyed in the Wednesday night raid.
The raid was led by Natore senior judicial magistrate Ibrahim Ali. Officials found cockroaches swarming around the food, and the rooms where kachagolla and maya kheer sandesh were made and kept were filthy, with food lying uncovered on the floor.
The owner, Rabindranath Kundu, admitted the offence when questioned, and was sentenced in a summary trial under the relevant section of the Consumer Rights Protection Act.
Also on the raid were food safety officer Niamul Hasan of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority, Nazmul Hasan of the National Consumer Rights Protection Directorate's Natore office, district sanitary officer Mst Tazkeratul Nesa of the civil surgeon's office, food safety sampling assistant Bapparaj and municipal sanitary inspector Uday Kumar Sarkar.
Residents welcomed the raid, saying a few dishonest traders are damaging the name of Natore's traditional GI product.
Photo: Shahnoor Habib Munmun / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Source: Dinajpur TV
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