Chandrapur: Sleuth from the branch of local crime damaging a warehouse in Chandrapur MIDC was piled up with illegal aroma tobacco and arrested the owner on Thursday.
The police have confiscated 200 kg of flavorful tobacco which is worth almost RS4.20 lakh during the raid.
The official source of the police information has a tip-off of a warehouse in the MIDC area on the outskirts of the city where Illegal tobacco sellers has kept their stock.
SP Arvind Salve assumed the responsibility of destroying the Nexus tobacco smugglers and sellers on LCB in-fee PI Balasaheb Khade.
He sent a team led by PSI Sandeep Kapade to storm the warehouse in plot no.
68 from Chandrapur MIDC.
The Raiding team searched Godown and restore the large cache of illegal aroma tobacco.
The restored items including 196 kg of flavorful tobacco packaged in 49 bags of 4 kg each, 19 Maja-flavorful tobacco packages 108 and 400 VN fragrant tobacco packages, collectively worth RS4.20 Lakh.
LCB tells this problem to the authority of food and drugs and call their team to the place.
The owner of the defendant Godown Washim Jimri was arrested in this relationship and violations of him registered in the relevant section of the law.