While raiding a building at Nasirabad Industrial Area, the court discovered that raw materials of mosquito coils were being processed in the factory located on the ground floor causing serious air pollution and posing health hazards.

The factory, owned by the multi-national pharmaceutical company, neither had the required permission from the environment department nor had any signboard outside.

The court sealed the factory off and imposed a fine of Tk 3 lakh on the company and the building owner.

Meanwhile, the court yesterday fined seven owners of Maijpukur, a famous pond, Tk 2 lakh for filling it up illegally.

On Thursday, the court stopped the filling up of the pond at the city's Saltgola during a raid and arrested three people in this connection. The court ordered the owners to dig the pond again at their own cost, sources said.

On the same day, the court stopped filling up of another pond of Barrister Sultan Ahmad College under Bandar Police Station and ordered the college authority to submit record documents of the pond.