madurai the madurai corporation on tuesday seized a total of 870 kilograms of plastic bags having less than the prescribed thickness from 335 shops and slapped rs 145 lakh fine on them for selling the banned productstwenty teams comprising four sanitary officers 20 sanitary inspectors 35 swachh police and 100 sanitary workers carrie out the searches on all the 100 wards of the madurai corporation on tuesday they found 75 shops in zone one at theni main road t b main road and others in possession of the bags having less than 50micron thickness the officers imposed a total fine of rs 19000 on the shop owners and confiscated 75 kilograms of bags from their possessionsin zone two the officers seized 150 kilograms of bags from 65 shops and handed their owners a sum of rs 43000 in fines shops in mattuthavani bus stand the flower market anna nagar pudur ptr main road panagal road and kamarajar salai in zone three were also slapped with rs 57000 as fine a total of 515 kilograms of banned plastic bags were seized from the ownersas many as 53 shops in zone four in places like palanganatham bypass road among others were given fine of rs 26500 in all 130 kilograms of bags were seized from them notices warning the shops of using the banned plastics were also distributed