
Cigarette smuggling increases multifold in India
Reports are coming that cigarette consumption in India has dipped, but with an increasing number of women smokers – fresh data from intelligence agency reveals that smuggling of foreign-brand cigarettes in India has skyrocketed by almost 300 per cent.
All India data of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), available with Indiatoday.in – in terms of quantity, smuggling of cigarette has increased multi-fold. Till March 31, 2016 – 13.76 crore number of sticks were seized by the agency – worth Rs 123 crore, whereas, during 2014-15, the number of sticks were 11.83 crore – worth Rs 106 crore.
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