Bdnews24.com, Dhaka

The interim cabinet yesterday approved the Consumer Rights Protection Ordinance 2008, which prescribes 3 years’ imprisonment and a fine to businessmen proved guilty of cheating consumers, a government spokesman said.
The CA’s press secretary Syed Fahim Munaim told reporters, after the cabinet meeting at the Chief Adviser’s Office, that charging more than the recommended retail price would be considered as a punishable act.
False advertising and cheating with weights of goods will be punishable under the new law, Munaim said. [Read more]