Police seize 521 kg of banned tobacco products, arrest two from Rajasthan

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Madurai District Police seized 521 kilograms of banned baccy products and arrested 2 persons from Rajasthan, who were successful possession of the contraband, successful an aboriginal greeting cognition adjacent Kottampatti connected Thursday.

The constabulary said pursuing circumstantial intelligence, they were connected the look-out for a conveyance successful which banned commodities were being transported.

A peculiar squad of constabulary intensified the surveillance and intercepted a car, successful which the banned tobocco products were concealed. The occupants of the car identified themselves arsenic Vikram Kumar, 28, and Keesan, 25, and told the constabulary that they were going to Madurai from Bengaluru.

Through a discreet probe, the constabulary recovered that the conveyance registration fig was fake. The constabulary seized the contraband and the vehicle, and detained the duo. The constabulary besides seized 3 mobile phones from them. Further probe is on.

Based connected their confession, the constabulary said the banned items were being brought from Bengaluru. Whether they were to beryllium delivered to immoderate idiosyncratic successful Madurai oregon successful immoderate different spot successful confederate districts was yet to beryllium probed, they added.

A property enactment said the constabulary would not spare smuggling of banned baccy products. Bank accounts of the accused persons, their humor relatives and accomplices would beryllium scanned and terrible enactment would beryllium initiated against them. Superintendent of Police B.K. Arvind said nationalist could confidentially stock accusation regarding merchantability of banned baccy products with the constabulary connected 94981181206.

Published - June 11, 2026 09:42 p.m. IST

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