Bangladesh, Oct. 1 -- A mobile court has seized a large quantity of fake soybean oil, empty bottles, ingredients and equipment used to produce the oil during a raid on a factory in Pirgachha, Rangpur.

The raid was conducted on Wednesday at the accused's two-storey house in Guabari Balapara of the upazila.

The mobile court sentenced the businessman, Mashiur Rahman, 40, to one month of simple imprisonment and fined him Tk 20,000.

Acting on a tip-off, Tarik Hasan Tahsin, executive magistrate of the mobile court and assistant commissioner (land), conducted the raid on Wednesday morning.

According to Tarik Hasan Tahsin, Mashiur owns a wholesale and retail grocery shop in the Old Bus Stand area of Pirgachha Bazar. He had allegedly been pro...