Two punished in Gomastapur for selling fertilizer without receipts, 21 sacks seized
A mobile court in Gomastapur, Chapainawabganj, has jailed and fined two people in two separate drives over the illegal transport of fertilizer and its sale without receipts. A total of 21 sacks of fertilizer being carried illegally were seized in the two drives.
The drives were carried out on Wednesday (November 4) in the afternoon and evening in the Rohonpur municipal area and on the Rohonpur-Gomastapur road.
According to the upazila agriculture office, five sacks of fertilizer were being moved elsewhere in the Dhulauri area of the Rohonpur municipal area on Wednesday afternoon without any valid receipt or cash memo. When local people became suspicious, they stopped the fertilizer-laden van and informed the upazila administration.
Assistant Commissioner (Land) and Executive Magistrate Chowdhury Al Mahmud then went to the spot and ran the mobile court. Moniruzzaman Jibon, manager of fertilizer dealer 'Kabir Traders', was sentenced to seven days' simple imprisonment and fined Tk 10,000 for transporting and selling fertilizer without a receipt.
In a separate drive that evening in the Shimultala area of the Rohonpur-Gomastapur road, Abdur Rashid of Nimtala Kathalgram in Gomastapur union was fined Tk 15,000 for illegally transporting 16 sacks of fertilizer, by mobile court judge and Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Zillur Rahman.
Upazila Agriculture Officer Saklayen Hossain said the 21 seized sacks had been taken to the upazila agriculture office. Under the rules, the fertilizer will be sold at the government-fixed price and the money deposited in the government treasury.
