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Guwahati : Police had seized a huge consignment of cigarettes and other items smuggled from Myanmar in Assam’s Karimganj district on Friday evening.
According to the reports, based on intelligence input, a police team of Patharkandi police station in the bordering district with Tripura had launched operation and seized 300 packets foreign made cigarettes and 100 packets corn flakes from a vehicle and arrested two persons in connection with it.
The police team had intercepted the vehicle bearing registration number of AS-10B-0511 at Patharkandi area and seized the items.
Police said that, the vehicle was coming from Tripura side.
Police had arrested two persons in connection with it and they were identified as Baharuddin and Manirul Islam.
“We have seized some foreign made cigarettes and other items from a vehicle. When we asked to produce the documents, they were failed. We have confirmed that, these items have been smuggled into India from foreign country. We have arrested two persons in connection with it,” Dimbeswar Thakuria, Officer-in-Charge of Patharkandi police station said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
