A mobile court in Dewanganj upazila of Jamalpur sentenced Md. Mizan Rahman, aged 38, to one year of imprisonment without labor for illegally selling topsoil from agricultural land. The operation took place on Sunday afternoon in Sarkarpara area of Dangdhora Union, led by Dewanganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Executive Magistrate Shah Zahurul Hossain.

According to local sources, soil had been excavated and sold from farmland in the area for a long time using excavators, damaging both the fertility of the land and nearby roads. Acting on complaints, the administration conducted a raid and caught Mizan in the act of soil cutting. He was immediately sentenced by the mobile court.

The executive magistrate stated that removing and selling fertile soil from agricultural land poses a threat to the country’s food security and environment.