3 illegal water factories sealed, 15 punished

A mobile court in the city Friday sealed off three illegal water factories and punished 15 people for producing and marketing substandard drinking water, reports UNB.
Sources at the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) headquarters said the elite force has strengthened its anti-illegal water factory drive on the eve of the World Water Day that falls on March 22.
The mobile court of Rab-2, led by its headquarters' executive magistrate AHM Anwar Pasha, conducted the drives in the city's Tejgaon Station Road and Karwanbazar in between 9:30am and 1:00pm.
The mobile court sealed off the three illegal water factories-'Messrs Faruk Agro Food' at 141/1 Tejgaon Station Road, 'Water Plant' at 148/1 Tejgaon Station Road and 'Antar Drinking Water' at 77 North Karwanbazar.