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Fake medicine factory sealed off

Thursday, 29 May 2014


A mobile court in Savar on Thursday sealed off a fake medicine factory and sentenced its nine employees to different terms of jail. The mobile court, led by UNO and executive magistrate Quamrul Hasan Mollah, raided the factory ‘SF Laboratory’ at Genda adjacent to Savar Upazila Parishad. During the drive, the mobile court found covers and levels of various famed pharmaceutical factories. Later, it sealed off the fake medicine factory and arrested its nine employees. The mobile court sentenced the factory in-charge to one year’s imprisonment and eight other employees to six months each. However, factory owner Abdul Jabbar managed to flee the scene, according to a news agency.