As the court seized a huge amount of fish from the market, its vendors went berserk and hurled brick chips towards the mobile court team
- Police beat up the leader after being attacked by the shop owners
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- Police seize some adulterated fishes from the market
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- A leader of the shop owners’ association of the Town Hall Kitchen Market in the capital’s Mohammadpur tries to pursue a mobile court to not run formalin test
Photo- Mahmud Hossain Apu/Dhaka Tribune
Fish traders attacked a mobile court which went to the city’s Mohammadpur Town Hall Kitchen market to check for formalin in fish yesterday.
As the court seized a huge amount of fish from the market, its vendors went berserk and hurled brick chips towards the mobile court team. Policemen with the court charged with baton, fired rubber bullets to bring the situation under control.
“We nabbed some traders during the incident around 12:30pm but they were freed later. Additional police were deployed in the area following the situation,” said Azizul Haque, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur police station over phone.
The mobile court was conducted by Senior Assistant Secretary Abul Kalam Azam of Public Administration Ministry, the OC said.
He said the mobile court found presence of formalin in almost all the fish at every shop of the kitchen market. As the court attempted to seize the fish, the traders barred the court and at a one stage they hurled brick chips at the court.
The traders also switched off the lights in the market so that the court could not examine the fish. “Two or three policemen sustained injuries when they resisted the traders,” the OC claimed.
However, some detainees told the police that they just protested the court as the court was fining the traders Tk30,000 to Tk40,000 which was very high for them.
They also alleged that the court was also fining those who were selling live fish for the presence of formalin.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
