Rs. 7.5 crore worth of cigarettes seized
Foreign branded cigarettes worth nearly Rs. 7.5 crore were seized by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Saturday at the Inland Container Depot at Tughlaqabad.
The seizure was made by the Delhi zonal unit of DRI at the Tughlaqbad depot and cigarette sticks of popular foreign brands, numbering a total 53.4 lakh in the early hours of Saturday.
A total of 3,300 bags were seized that included High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) granules also.
The present case is the latest in a string of similar detections carried out by DRI in different parts of the country, a statement from the directorate said. These smuggled cigarettes do not conform to the statutory health warning prescribed for the sale of tobacco products in the domestic market, the statement said.
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