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Gujarat: Three Chinese tukkal buyers arrested by cyber cell police

Around 110 Chinese Tukkals were recovered from the accused

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Just four days before the Uttarayan, cyber cell police arrested three persons accused of purchasing Chinese Tukkal from an e-commerce website. Around 110 Chinese Tukkals were recovered from the accused.

Three different cases were lodged by cyber cell police station in the matter and the accused were identified as Kishan Pandya (26) and Sunil Verma (48) of Sabarmati area and Nilesh Prajapati (20) from Narol area.

On January 6, the cyber cell police officials had issued a notice to 12 e-commerce websites who were still selling banned products such as Chinese Tukkal and Chinese threads online in Gujarat for violating the Police Commissioner's notification on the ban on such products.

Regarding the matter, the e-commerce websites had shared the details of people who had purchased the Chinese Tukkals from their online portal. Around three persons' addresses were shared with cyber cell officials; they were later arrested and the Chinese Tukkals were recovered from them.

Rajdeep Zala, DCP of cyber cell, said, "We are keeping a close tab on the e-commerce websites regarding the purchase of the banned products and if anyone is found purchasing it, they will be arrested. Our technical team is monitoring the websites and will get know if anyone is trying to violate the notification."

Six cases have been lodged with the local police stationregarding sale of Chinese threads, in which six accused were arrested. Four cases were lodged with Vejalpur police where around a total of 300 Chinese threads were recovered by them, while one was lodged at Kalupur police station where a person was nabbed for selling Chinese threads and during a vehicle checking, Anandnagar police recovered Chinese thread from a person. The cops issued a notice to 12 e-commerce sites to stop the delivery of Chinese Tukkal and Chinese threads to Gujarat.

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