Kota:
A supply agent of a fast commerce platform has been arrested for allegedly delivering cigarettes to underaged teaching college students in Kota’s Landmark Metropolis space, police mentioned on Sunday.
Satyaprakash Koli (48) was nabbed whereas he was supplying cigarettes to teaching college students on Saturday night, SP Kota metropolis Amrita Duhan mentioned.
The arrest was made throughout a crackdown in opposition to sale and provide of cigarettes by fast commerce platforms to underaged teaching college students, the police mentioned.
The accused, who works for Blinkit, has been booked below part 77 of Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act and below part 9/11 of Rajasthan Prohibition of Smoking and Non-smoker’s Well being Safety Act, the SP mentioned.
Town police had already written to representatives of Blinkit firm at its workplace in Landmark Metropolis asking to not promote and provide cigarettes to minor college students, however regardless of the instruction, the corporate was discovered to be promoting them to the teaching college students, she mentioned.
Investigation is underway to search out out different personnel of the corporate concerned in sale and provide of prohibited materials to the minors, she added.
The police may even file a chargesheet in opposition to the corporate, Kunhadi Circle Inspector Arvind Bhardwaj mentioned.
Supplying smoking materials and tobacco to minors is a critical offence and police, throughout investigation, may even have in mind the corporate’s distribution community of prohibited gadgets in different cities, he mentioned Inventory and provide registers, recovered from the corporate’s retailer, have been seized for examination, he mentioned.
The accused was produced earlier than courtroom on Sunday and despatched to jail, the officer mentioned.
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