The court, led by Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Magistrate Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, found that Agrabad Hawaii Hotel was pilfering water from a Wasa line directly by using a motor and evading tax.

Shangri-La Chinese Restaurant of the same area was also found pilfering and lifting Wasa water without having any reserve tank.

The court detained two staffs of the restaurants, seized the motors and realised Tk 5.28 lakh in fines.

The same court in another drive realised Tk 10000 from Mohammad Shamsul Alam, ward commissioner of Ward No 12 of Chittagong City Corporation, for illegally supplying Wasa water and misusing it in the port city's Saraipara area.

The court also realised an arrear of Tk 2.10 lakh from New Millennium Fashion and Amin Jute Mill on the same ground.

A team of Wasa engineers assisted the mobile court during the drives.

Meanwhile, members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive at the estuary of the river Shankha under Anwara upazila seized 120 sacks of urea fertiliser and four boats worth around Tk 15 lakh which were taking preparations for smuggling yesterday afternoon.

However, the smugglers managed to flee, sources said.

In another drive at a beach near Akmal Ali Road under Patenga Police Station, Coast Guard recovered a rope of a ship worth around Tk 7.5 lakh that was stolen from a foreign vessel recently.