Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB, in different anti-crime drives, unearthed six spurious date ‘gur’ (molasses) factories and fined Tk 2.45 lakh in the district on Wednesday, the RAB sources said here Thursday noon.
On a tip-off, a team of the elite force unearthed the fake date manufacturing factories at Uttar Punchpara and Chaidiarppara villages under Bagha Upazila and seized huge spurious date gur and gur making chemicals and instruments including sugar, fitkari, hydrous and butter.
Owners of the factories are: Lalon Ali, 35, Joynal Abedeen, 36, Muhammad Polash, 28, Mina Rani Mondal, 30, and Sabuj Ali, 33, the sources added.
Subsequently, the operation team produced them before a mobile court and the on-duty executive magistrate fined the factory owners Tk 2.45 lakh on charge of their involvement in the malpractice.