Drugstore fined for selling not-for sale saline

A mobile court of district administration fined a medicine store Tk 40,000 for selling government saline, which is not for sale, in Cumilla on Saturday night.

The court led by Executive Magistrate Amit Datta fined Nurul Amin Patwary, owner of Inan Medicine Point at the city's Kandirpar.

He sold a bag of sodium chloride solution saline (500ml) at Tk 3,000 to a person, said the executive magistrate.

"We only fined the drugstore owner under Consumer Rights Protection Act as it is his first-time offence," said Amit Datta.

The Institute of Public Health produces the saline for government hospitals where it is applied for patients for free, said Dr Mojibur Rahman, director of Cumilla Medical College Hospital.

"A section of dishonest people is involved in such incident," he said.

When asked about it, Cumilla Civil Surgeon Dr Md Neyatuzzaman avoided the question, telling this correspondent that he would "talk about the matter later".