Eight held for smuggling tobacco goods
CHENNAI: The state police busted a tobacco product smuggling racket with the arrest of eight people on Tuesday. Investigators charged the gang with smuggling banned tobacco products like gutkha from Kerala to many parts of the state and seized a consignment worth more than 6 lakh from Villupuram and Kanyakumari. Police arrested one suspect in Villupuram and seven others in Kanyakumari. The Kanyakumari police and officers of the organised crime investigation unit intercepted an SUV near Asaripallam in Kanyakumari district but its occupants tried to escape. Police teams chased and arrested seven men in the vehicle after finding tobacco products concealed in 27 bags.
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