Rs 64 Lakh Worth Foreign Brand Cigarettes Seized

In a development that will bolster the claim of the domestic cigarette lobby that the import of contraband cigarettes was on the rise, the preventive wing of the customs commissionerate, Mumbai, recently seized foreign brand cigarettes of over Rs 64 lakh imported under the garb of aluminium scrap by an Ahmedabad-based company.

Revenue department sources told Business Standard that working on a specific information, officers of the marine and preventive wing of the Mumbai commissionerate intercepted a 20-feet container, which had arrived on vessel