The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined an illegal steel re-rolling mill Tk 15 lakh for polluting air with toxic smoke at Rupganj in Narayanganj.

DoE Director M Munir Chowdhury fined AK Majumder Steel Mills Ltd and ordered its closure as per the environment preservation law, says a press release.

The factory, which had been operating without environmental clearance for the last one and a half years, emitted toxic smoke containing metal elements including sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.