Adar Police, on Friday, night raided Brothers’ Cafe, behind Hungry Eyes, Mount Road, Sadar, and caught four persons, including its owner, red-handed while
illegally serving hookah to customers. Cops seized hookah pots, boxes of scented tobacco, smoking pipes and a television set.
The accused have been identified as hookah parlour owner Jonty Shaluman Philips (24), Marshal James Philips (33), Joel James Philips (37), all residents of Martin Nagar, Jaripatka, and Anand Ishwardas Nandeshwar (30), a resident of Plot No 364,
Chhaoni, Sadar.
Cops registered a case under Sections 4 (A), 21 (A) of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce,.Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2018 against the accused persons.
The raid was conducted by PSI Krishna Pullewad, constabulary.staff comprising DurgeshThakur, Pralesh Kapse, Nandkishor Deogade, Dheeraj Panchbhave,.Gyaneshwar Chawke, Ranjit Danekar and Jayashree Sarode under the supervision of DCP (Zone-II) Vinita Sahu, ACP Madhuri Bawiskar and Senior PI Vinod Chaudhary.
