Patna: You have got one more reason to quit smoking, courtesy the Bihar Police! They busted a factory at Balathuan in Rohtas district, around 180km southwest of Patna, on Saturday, which was producing fake cigarettes of well-known brands.
The police arrested two people, including the owner of the unit, and seized several machines, as well as, a large quantity of cigarettes in the operation, ready to be pushed into the markets in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand for sale.
“We took action based on intelligence inputs that a person from Uttar Pradesh was running an illicit cigarette manufacturing unit in the basement of a building in Balathuan village under Sasaram Mufassil police station area, and was producing cigarettes of famous brands,” Rohtas Superintendent of Police (SP) Raushan Kumar said.
