A mobile court has raided a factory for making fake cosmetics using the names of domestic and foreign cosmetic companies made of toxic chemicals and flour.
On Monday morning, the executive magistrate of Cumilla district administration raided the fake and approved cosmetics factory and sealed the factory and arrested its owner Mohammad Abu Sufian and sentenced him to six months in jail, fined him Tk 15,000. The factory was sealed by destroying the counterfeit cosmetics.
The most common virgin oil in the market is made in this factory under the name of Kanyarika. Facial lovely, Fog, these cosmetics were made with fake and toxic chemicals without the approval of BSTI.
For more than two years now, these cosmetics have been marketed from Sardar Bari in Uttar Gaychar area of Mogaltuli area of Cumilla. After receiving the complaint at 11:30 am on Monday, August 24, the Consumer Department and Cumilla District Administration conducted a joint operation at the factory. The factory was sealed. Under the Consumer Rights Act, the factory owner was sentenced to six months in jail and fined Tk 15,000.
Md. Asadul Islam, Assistant Director, Cumilla Consumer Department, said, "We have come to know on the basis of confidential information that there is a counterfeit factory in Sardar's house behind Cumilla Mogultuli High School."
I came here and saw that cosmetics were made in two rooms. Three women are wrapping cosmetics. There is no lab in the factory. Flour kept in plastic drums. Oil and chemicals in the open drum next to itAbu Sufian used to make 25 products of 5 local and foreign cosmetics.
He is the owner himself, the technician himself.
He used to make fake cosmetics in the form of local and foreign cosmetics. Abu Sufian, the owner of the factory, was jailed for six months and fined Tk 10,000 by a mobile court for such crimes. Executive Magistrate Abu Saeed added that such operations would continue in the public interest.
