Juicing mangoes at home instead of giving in to your child's demands for those brightly coloured packets containing processed ones might just work in your favour.

Thanks to an alarm raised by a group of the detective branch (DB) of police running a road checkpoint in Rajshahi yesterday, some 200 maunds of rotten mango was discovered inside a plant of Hashem Agro Processing Limited, a concern of Sajeeb Group, which manufactures Shezan, a brand of mango drinks.

The mangoes were promptly buried by a mobile court, which also fined the plant at Chobbisnagar village of Rishikul union Tk 2 lakh for intending to use those.

“Of course these cheap mangoes are putrid and rotten. It will not suffice if I just say these were substandard. None will consume these,” said Executive Magistrate Monir Hossain of Godagari upazila who led the court with police assistance and realised the fine.

However, the plant's manager, Nurul Karim, claimed that suppliers had brought the mangoes inside their premises and the plant's quality controller was yet to go through those before giving a decision on whether those were fit for purchase.

He also alleged that the executive magistrate was decided on imposing a fine even before conducting the raid and had not given them the scope to explain the matter and defend themselves.

With the season's-end varieties available for no less than Tk 100 per kilogramme, local orchard owners say such manufacturers pay as low as Tk 15 per kilogramme for mangoes they discard for having no market demand.

The DB men at the Sadhu intersection of the upazila headquarters had stopped four improvised three-wheelers in the morning detecting a stench coming from their cargo of 200 maunds of mango, which was later destroyed.

When the drivers informed the processing plant to be their destination, the DB men informed local police, who in turn called in the mobile court which raided the plant, said Godagari Police Station Officer-in-Charge SM Forhad Hossain.

“I asked the factory manager and some other staff if they would consume these mangoes,” the executive magistrate told The Daily Star. The reply in the negative was immediate.