In a recent operation, the Crime Branch’s Unit-02 cracked down on an illicit hookah parlour operating at 09 Brothers Cafe, Buty Compound, Mount Road, Sadar. The raid led to the apprehension of the cafe owner, Ishwar Naresh Sulbhewar (22), and the manager, Bhushan Ashok Gondane (27), caught red-handed serving flavored tobacco hookahs to customers on Wednesday.
Acting on specific intelligence, the Unit-02 team conducted the operation, seizing 10 hookah pots and assorted packets of flavored tobacco valued at Rs 29,900. Both Sulbhewar and Gondane, residents of Model Mill Chowk and Somwari Quarter respectively, were booked under Sections 4(21) and 5(21) of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act.
Following their arrest, the accused were transferred to Sadar Police Station for further investigation.