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SC ordered tanneries to pay Tk. 10,000 per day

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MNA Business Desk: The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered 154 tanneries at Dhaka’s Hazaribagh to pay Tk. 10,000 per day as compensation for polluting the environment until they shift to Savar. The court also ordered to donate fifty percent of the fined money to the National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh. A four-member bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order upon a petition filed by the Tannery Owners Association and Bangladesh Leather, Leather Goods and Footwear Exporters’ Association. Bangladesh government tried repeatedly to relocate the tanners from the area, but failed. The latest attempt was a March ...

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