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Officials of the Elite Anti-Narcotics Group for Law Enforcement (EAGLE), on with the Eluru police, conducted searches successful pan, kirana, and different shops located adjacent schools and colleges successful Eluru Town connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026), and seized baccy products.
Police registered cases against the store owners nether Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution), COPTA Act, 2003.
Following the directions of EAGLE caput and IGP Ake Ravi Krishna and Eluru territory Superintendent of Police K. Pratap Shiva Kishore, the squad led by EAGLE inspector B. Uday Bhaskar, SI P. Appa Rao and different officers conducted raids connected the shops arsenic portion of “Operation Safe Campus Zone”.
Under COPTA Act, show oregon merchantability of cigarettes, gutkha, and others baccy products was prohibited adjacent acquisition institutions, Mr. Uday Bhaskar said. Public are requested to alert EAGLE constabulary by calling connected ‘1972’, if they announcement merchantability of ganja oregon drugs, the officers said.
