Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) filed cases against eight organisations, including six petrol pumps, for their alleged manipulation of weighing different types of fuel.
Different mobile courts and surveillance teams of the BSTI launched the drives and also fined Tk 340,000 in Gazipur and Tangail districts on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Different mobile courts, led by executive magistrate of Gazipur district administration Md Harunur Rasid, and a surveillance team of the BSTI, led by assistant director Md Monnaf Hosain, carried out the drives in those areas.
The cases were lodged as per the Standards of Weights and Measures Act 2018.
