Dhaka, April 11 -- The Department of Environment (DoE) has conducted 778 mobile court drives across the country from January 2 to April 10 this year.

During this period, the mobile courts filed 1663 cases against several people, organisations, and fined Tk 24 crore, nine lakh and 50, 100 on various charges, the department said on Friday.

The charges included pollution, particularly emitting excessive black smoke, illegal brick kilns, steel mills contributing to air pollution, noise pollution, and hazardous waste discharge, lead/battery recycling factories, landfilling of water bodies, tire pyrolysis, charcoal factories, and the open storage of construction materials causing air pollution.

Simultaneously, the chimneys of 438 illegal bri...