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The Delhi constabulary person arrested 2 men for allegedly supplying ₹12 lakh worthy of smuggled overseas cigarettes lacking mandatory wellness warnings, an serviceman said connected Saturday.
Police seized 66,400 cigarettes of planetary brands from Parveen Sehgal, 37, of Panipat, Haryana, and Mukesh Khatreja, 48, of Delhi.
On Saturday, constabulary received a extremity astir a ample consignment of banned cigarettes to beryllium delivered adjacent Palam flyover successful Prahladpur.
An serviceman said that, acting connected the tip-off, constabulary laid a trap and apprehended some accused with 4 bags of smuggled cigaret packets.
The serviceman said 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 interrogation, constabulary recovered that the 2 accused were progressive successful smuggling cigarettes from Cambodia and supplying them to section markets successful Delhi and adjacent areas.
