Businessman Harpreet Talwar sent to 14-day judicial custody in connection with seizure of smuggled cigarettes

New Delhi: Businessman Harpreet Singh Talwar, arrested in connection with the foreign cigarettes smuggling seizure case, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody.

On March 11, Talwar was arrested from Mumbai airport by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).

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According to the DRI, after receiving secret information, a consignment was intercepted in February by the DRI at the Nhava Sheva Port in Navi Mumbai and had seized 21.6 lakh cigarette sticks of a foreign brand.

The price of the confiscated foreign cigarettes in the international market has been estimated at about Rs 4.75 crore.

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Earlier in January, the Mumbai zonal unit of DRI had recovered 18,00,000 sticks of foreign cigarettes worth around Rs 3.24 crores concealed in a container that arrived from Dubai. (ANI)

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