Hyderabad: The South Zone Commissioner’s Task Force, along with the Chandrayangutta police on Thursday nabbed a person for selling banned foreign cigarettes.
Contraband worth over Rs 1.1 lakhs was seized from the accused, police said in a statement.
According to the police, the accused, Omer Bin Ilyas Zumbali, who hails from Barkas, resorted to selling banned cigarettes after income from running a general store fell short in providing for his family.
Zumbali procured the cigarettes and stored them at his store and home for further selling, the police said. Azher, a resident of Hafeez Baba Nagar from whom Zumbali sourced the cigarettes, is absconding.
Zumbali would further sell the contraband to customers for maximum profit, according to the police.
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