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Delhi Police has apprehended 2 men for allegedly supplying smuggled cigarettes without the mandatory pictorial wellness informing labels successful markets here, an authoritative said connected Sunday (October 26, 2025).
Police person recovered a full of 66,400 cigarettes of planetary brands, valued astatine astir ₹12 lakh, from the accused.
"They person been identified arsenic Parveen Sehgal (37), a nonmigratory of Panipat, and Mukesh Khatreja (48), a nonmigratory of Delhi. On October 25, a squad received accusation that a immense consignment of prohibited cigarettes was to beryllium delivered adjacent the Palam flyover successful the Prahladpur area," the serviceman said.
He said a trap was laid and some the accused were apprehended with 4 bags containing 332 "dandas" (each comprising 10 packets) of smuggled cigarettes. The packets did not transportation the statutory wellness warnings mandated nether the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), rendering them amerciable for merchantability oregon organisation successful India.
During questioning, it was recovered that the duo was progressive successful smuggling cigarettes from Cambodia and supplying them to section markets successful Delhi and adjacent areas. Further probe into the substance is underway.
