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FINED-QUARANTINE
Six fined for violating quarantine rules in
Ctg
CHATTOGRAM, March 18, 2020 (BSS) – Mobile
courts fined six overseas returnees for
violating government’s instructions to stay in
home quarantine in the district.
They have returned home from different
countries of Middle East between March 8 and
13.
The returnees hailed from Anwara, Hathazari,
Raozan, Patiya and Lohagara upazilas.
Additional District Magistrate (ADM) AZM
Sharif Hossain of Chattogram today said mobile
courts led by upazila nirbahi officers (UNO)
fined the six expatriates.
Five of them were fined Taka 10,000 each for
violating the article 269 of penal code and one
was fined Taka 5,000.
He told the journalists that it is mandatory
for anyone to stay in their 14 days home
quarantine after returning home from abroad.
The six expatriates were traveling outside
their residences violating the quarantine
rules.
In response to a question, AZM Sharif Hossain
said there is no alternative to awareness to
avoid the infection of the coronavirus. For
this reason, anyone who comes from abroad must
be stay in home quarantine, he added.
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