A mobile court run by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has handed five people penalties for stashing away coronavirus testing kits in Dhaka.
The kits were seized in a drive around Rajarbagh and Nikunja area, RAB-3 Executive Magistrate Palash Kumar Basu said on Tuesday, reports bdnews24.com.
The detainees, who could not be identified immediately, were handed jail terms and slapped with fines.
Basu said that 300 testing kits were confiscated from Shahid Nagar adjacent to Rajarbagh Gate No. 2, where three people were handed jail terms of a year and nine months and fined Tk200,000 each.
“Later 900 testing kits and replicas of N95 masks were found at House No. 20 in Nikunja Road No. 20. Both of them were penalised with jail sentences and fined,” he said.
