Amritsar, August 2
The Customs Department has arrested three people along with foreign cigarettes worth Rs 18 lakh at Sri Guru Ramdas Ji International Airport yesterday and 4000 packs of cigarettes have been recovered from the possession of the accused. Currently, the customs officials are interrogating the three accused.
The customs department received information that two businessmen were bringing a large consignment of cigarettes from Sharjah to India through Air India Express flight number lx138. During the checking, the customs department arrested the two passengers and recovered 51 thousand cigarette packs from their possession. done The market price of which is 8 lakh 67000 rupees.
Similarly, in another case, the customs department team arrested a passenger from Scoot Airways flight number TR 572 and recovered 55 thousand 200 cigarette packs from his possession.