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Marine Police adjacent Uchipuli successful Ramanathapuram seized 1,530 kg of beedi leafage bundles from a tractor present connected Friday.
According to sources, the marine constabulary received a tip-off that the beedi leaves were to beryllium smuggled to Sri Lanka from the Pudumadam coastal country adjacent Uchipuli done a boat.
Following this, the Pudumadam marine constabulary monitored the coastal country for immoderate suspicious movements. At that time, they noticed individuals unloading bundles from a tractor to load them into a vessel anchored adjacent the oversea shore.
While the constabulary tried to apprehend them, the suspects fled the scene, abandoning the tractor and the bundles, said constabulary sources. Upon inspecting the unregistered tractor, constabulary recovered and seized 1,530 kg of beedi leaves packed successful 51 sacks.
Following preliminary investigation, the Marine Police handed implicit the seized tractor and the beedi leaves to the Customs Department successful Ramanathapuram.
