BSTI destroys 2,100 water jars in city

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) in an anti-adulteration drive destroyed on Saturday a total of 2,100 water jars in the city's Mohammadpur area, report UNB.

Executive Magistrate Sarowar Alam led the mobile drive jointly arranged by the BSTI and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).

The mobile court also jailed six persons on different terms up to one year and fined a total of Tk 0.2 million (2 lakh) on charges of marketing untreated and unhygienic drinking water using the jars.

The drive was conducted at six business enterprises and all of them were punished for filling the jars with water from the supply line in an unhygienic and sordid environment as well as selling water without any sort of purification.

The six enterprises are Reliance Drinking Water at Shyamoli Housing in Adabar, Rajib Enterprise, Inada In Corporation, Proshanti Food and Green Eco-1 and a nameless enterprise in Basila.

RAB-2 additional ASP Mahmudul Hasan and BSTI assistant directors Md Riazul Haque and Golam Rabbani were also present during the drive.