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STF para 22,000 foreign cigarettes laga boxes seize kurishey

Assam, August 1: Assam Police Special Task Force (STF) team, led by Additional SP (STF) Kalyan Kumar Pathak para 22,000 boxes laga foreign cigarettes seize kurishey Amingaon area laga Kamrup district deh, official para koishey. Seizure toh Wednesday deh hoishey koina jani paishey, July 31 deh aro ekta manu ke arrest kurishey while teenta alag ke detained kurishey incident laga connection deh.

Pranab Jyoti Goswami, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of Assam Police para operation toh detained kurishey. Intelligence output deh act kurina, STF para jani paishey ki foreign cigarettes para Cigarettes aro Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) aro tax norms laga violation kurishey, aro etu kan toh Silchar to Raipur, Chhatisgarh deh transport kuri thakishey, in a truck bearing registration number HR-38Z-8530. Truck toh Amingaon area deh intercept kurishey.

Goswami para koishey ki, “Truck laga bitor deh search kura time deh, 11 large cartons laga foreign cigarettes bisari paishey etu bi furniture consignments laga under deh chopaina thakishey. Total of 22,000 cigarette boxes amounting to 4,40,000 individual cigarettes seized hoishey. Driver, Parashu Baishya ke apprehend kurishey.

Driver laga confession, stocking point deh hunina, ekta raid conduct kurishey MR King Godown, Boragaon deh. Raid laga doran, manager, Sahil Dewan, aro duita alag, Ashique Ikbal aro Ajit Saloi ke detained kurishey further questioning karney.

“Necessary legal measures kan chuli ase aro investigation toh ongoing ase. More details kan awaited ase.” Goswami para add kurishey.