Police seize cigarettes from Pallel
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, April 25 2020:
Pallel police nabbed one individual along with 91 cartons of Win cigarettes smuggled from Myanmar, containing 500 packets each from Pallel Keithel, this evening.
The smuggled cigarettes were transported by one Md Jangish Khan (32), S/o Md Manor Ali from Hayel Labuk, Thoubal in a white coloured Tata Xenon, said Kakching SP Victoria Yengkhom.
The SP also said that the seized cigarettes belong to one Hmangte Khup Kom, S/o Hmangte Ayang Kom from Checkon.
The cartons of cigarettes have been handed over to Custom Office, Pallel, and legal action will be initiated against the driver and the vehicle used in transporting the cigarettes for violating lockdown, she added.
It may be mentioned that a team of Moreh police had also seized 64,961 packets of smuggled Win cigarettes from near Moreh College which is under the jurisdiction of Moreh Police Station while Tengnoupal police also seized 44,000 packets of cigarettes from a place which is about half a kilometre far from Narun Village under Tengnoupal Police Station, recently.