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KIMIN\/YINGKIONG, 28 Jun:<\/strong> A huge amount of tobacco products and 60 units of beer were seized from 21 shops near the schools here in Papum Pare district during a raid conducted jointly by Kimin CO Hibu Kapi, CHC MO Dr Minge Tato Tana, PS OC Nabam Had, officials from the state tobacco control cell, and police personnel, recently.<\/p>\n The offending vendors were fined under relevant sections of the Cigarettes & Other Tobacco Products Act, and the seized products were burnt and disposed of in the presence of magistrates and police personnel.<\/p>\n In Upper Siang district, the anti-tobacco flying squad, led by Town Magistrate Mum Messar, conducted a raid and seized tobacco products from various shops operating within 100 yards<\/p>\n of educational institutes in headquarters Yingkiong.<\/p>\n The shopkeepers were warned against selling tobacco products within 100 yards of educational institutes.<\/p>\n In Changlang district, officials of the district tobacco control cell, the tax & excise department and the police seized a huge quantity of tobacco products from various shops in Jairampur.<\/p>\n Challans under different sections of the Cigarettes & Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) were issued to the shopkeepers found selling tobacco products without displaying health warning, and also for selling the items within 100 yards of educational institutes.<\/p>\n The seized items were later destroyed. (With inputs from DIPROs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KIMIN\/YINGKIONG, 28 Jun: A huge amount of tobacco products and 60 units of beer were seized from 21 shops near the schools here in Papum Pare district during a raid conducted jointly by Kimin CO Hibu Kapi, CHC MO Dr Minge Tato Tana, PS OC Nabam Had, officials from the state tobacco control cell, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-219402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}