Dhaka, Oct. 6 -- A Dhaka court dealing with food frauds on Monday fined Tk 4 lakh to Agora Limited, a prominent retail chain, for selling butter that a government laboratory test confirmed was produced from raw materials other than milk.

The court of judge Kaisunnahar Surma also fined the firm, neofarmers, Tk 8 lakh for producing the butter marketed as "Gawa Ghee." The butter comes in a jar with a special mention on its label, "Naturally Grown, Honestly Packed."

The case that resulted in the fines named two accused-Muallem A Chowdhury of Agora and Tamzid Siddiq Spondon of neofarmers, a startup that promised to replace adulterated food.

"Can you imagine producing butter without milk? They did it. There was no milk used in producing the ...