Two arrested for selling unlabelled imported cigarettes

Gurgaon | Sunday | 23rd July, 2017

Summary:

In Gurugram, two people were arrested for selling imported cigarettes without pictorial warnings.The district administration had received a complaint that a few shops were selling Hukka flavours i.e. GURUGRAM: Raids were conducted in the district to curb the menace of imported cigarettes violating Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution Act (COTPA). Following this, teams headed by Gurugram's Drugs Control Officer Amandeep Chauhan and Food Safety Officer KK Sharma raided the tobacco selling premises on Friday. The teams also checked wholesellers in Sadar Bazar.Out of these, two outlets of the same franchise Green Leaf Paan Shop near 32nd Milestone and at Good Earth City Centre Mall in sector 50 were found to be selling the imported cigarettes, Tobacco Molasses, Pipe Tobacco and other objectionable products. At 32nd Milestone, outlet incharge Bindeshwar revealed that shop is owned by a man named Pawan Jain ..