Ukkadam police on Sunday seized chewable tobacco product
worth Rs. 3 lakh from five persons, who attempted to smuggle the same
to Kerala. The police have arrested the five.
Tip-off
The
police said that following a tip-off that there was an attempt to
smuggle the tobacco using a sport utility vehicle from L.N. Street in
Ukkadam, a team led by Sub Inspector P. Jawahar Kumar, Special Sub
Inspector Karunamoorthy and Constable Mubarak Ali went around L.N.
Street and after keeping a watch, intercepted a vehicle with Coimbatore
registration.
The five were sitting in a suspicious manner inside the vehicle.
The
police team asked them to get out of the vehicle, made preliminary
enquiries and searched the vehicle, to find the chewable tobacco packed
in 25 bags.
In all, there were around 10,000 packets.
The
police said that after finding the tobacco there, the team seized it
and took into custody Shahul Hameed, Mohammed, Jubi, Jaleel and Sunny.
The
vehicle was Sunny’s. Jaleel was behind the wheel. Hameed and Mohammed
were from Coimbatore and the other three from Thrissur, Kerala.
While
the accused did not reveal the place where they had bought the banned
tobacco product or the place where they were supposed to deliver the
consignment, the police said that they suspected that it could be headed
for Kerala.
The police said that they had registered
a case and were taking the five to a magistrate court in Coimbatore to
send them to judicial remand.
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