Time Digital Report: Dhaka North City Corporation has decided to file a case against Marshal Agrovat Chemical Industries Ltd for not importing BTI pesticide as per the purchase contract.
Selim Reza, chief executive officer of DNCC, said they have unanimously decided to lodge the case with Gulshan Police Station.
The case will be filed tonight, he told The Daily Star.
BTI is used to eliminate larvae of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, carriers of dengue virus.
Earlier, DNCC blacklisted Marshal Agrovat and cancelled its purchase order with the company for importing Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI) for breaching the contract.
The corporation has formed a three-member committee, led by Additional Chief Engineer Mohammad Sharif Uddin, to investigate the matter.
It has been found that Marshal Agrovat did not import BTI pesticide from Singapore as it had claimed.
Instead, it imported the product from a Chinese company called Shandong Ganon Agrochemical, according to customs documents, although tender documents clearly say the BTI must be imported either from the US, EU countries, Singapore, India, and Malaysia.
