Fake cigarette unit busted in Telangana, one held
HYDERABAD: Task Force sleuths have busted a duplicate cigarette manufacturing unit and arrested a person. Cops seized 500 sacks of tobacco and raw material, all worth 2 crore.
Acting on specific information provided by a cigarette manufacturing company executives, a Task Force team along with Sultan Bazar police raided Yousuf Supplying Company in Sultan Bazar and busted a duplicate cigarette making racket.
Police arrested, Md Siddiq, a representative of Yousuf Supplying Company, from Sultan Bazar. His associates Md Alam Khan, and Naser Alam Khan of Barkathpura were absconding. Police seized 500 bags of tobacco, each one weighing 25 kilos, 170 cartons of cigarette filters, more than 400 rolls of cigarette papers of various brands, six rolls of silver paper were seized.
Police said that the accused have been manufacturing duplicate cigarettes of various brands of a manufacturing company and selling them to retailers for profit. The accused was were produced before the court for judicial remand.
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