Chittagong: A mobile court of Chittagong District Administration on Saturday seized huge quantities of contraband food supplements and cattle fattening tablets from different pharmacies and fined six pharmacies at Bahaddarhat area in Chittagong.

Deputy Revenue Collector and Executive Magistrate of Chittagong District Administration Mohammad Ruhul Amin led the mobile court at Hoque Market of Bahaddarhat area and fined six pharmacies a total of TK one lakh five thousand for selling contraband food supplements and cattle fattening tablets.

The pharmacies fined are–Shah Amanat Pharmacy, Jamuna Pharmacy, Chandgaon Pharmacy, Sharmi Medical, Asgar Shah Pharmacy and Idris Pharmacy.

The executive magistrate said the pharmacies were fined under different sections of Drug Act 1940.

‘A quarter of unscrupulous businessmen illegally sell the contraband tablets which are used for fattening cattle’, the executive magistrate said adding that consumption of meat from such cattle is harmful to human health.