Bengaluru: After illegal liquor, smugglers are now allegedly using parcel trains from Delhi to traffic foreign-brand cigarettes into Bengaluru, exposing what authorities suspect is a growing interstate smuggling network.

In the third major seizure linked to the same Delhi-Bengaluru route within a week, Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel at Yeshwantpur station seized nearly 2 lakh foreign-manufactured cigarettes worth around Rs 30 lakh Tuesday.

The consignment, comprising Korean brand ESSE Light Super Slim cigarettes, arrived on parcel special train no. 00630 from Okhla in Delhi – the same train from which more than 1,000 litres of illegal liquor were seized last Thursday. On Monday night, RPF officials also intercepted liquor worth Rs 17 lakh, packed in 17 carton boxes, on the same route.Officials said the latest seizure was made following a specific alert from Delhi authorities.