Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A crime branch team caught a man selling counterfeit cigarettes in Heera Nagar area. He was selling them by claiming that they were an international brand. ‘Foreign’ cigarettes worth about Rs 3 lakh have been recovered from the accused.
Police said they arrested Hemant Narvariya of Swasth Nagar, and seized the stock of cigarettes from him.
Police said they had received a tip that someone was selling cigarettes of a foreign brand, but they were being manufactured locally. What aroused the suspicion of the police was that the cigarettes were being sold at a very low price. Since the local paan shops were selling the cigarettes at the price of the genuine foreign brand, they were making big profits.
