9 restaurants fined in city

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has fined nine restaurants in Dhaka city Tk0.231 million (Tk231,000) for producing low quality food and unhygienic preservation. The restaurants are – City Cafe, Tusar Hotel, Sunami Iftar Bazar, Sunami Iftar Bazar-2, Hotel Darling Point, Dhanmondi Bhater Ghar-1, Dhanmondi Bhater Ghar-2, Hazaribagh Bhater Ghar and Dhanmondi Cha Ghar. Officials at the Rab headquarters said a team of Rab-2 led by its deputy director Dr Didarul Alam along with executive magistrate Mohammad Helal Uddin conducted a drive in the capital’s Dhanmondi area from 2:00pm. During the drive, the mobile court found that various types of sun-standard foods were produced and preserved in dirty and unhealthy condition in those nine restaurants. The mobile court fined City Café Tk50,000, Tusar Hotel Tk0.1m, Sunami Iftar Bazar Tk50,000, Hotel Darling Point Tk20,000, Dhanmondi Bhater Ghar-1 Tk3,000, Dhanmondi Bhater Ghar-2 Tk3,000, Hazaribagh Bhater Ghar Tk2,000 and Dhanmondi Cha Ghar Tk2,000, according to a news agency.