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 stated on Sunday.
Satyaprakash Koli (48) was nabbed whereas he was supplying cigarettes to teaching college students on Saturday night, SP Kota metropolis Amrita Duhan stated.
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 stated.
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 stated.
The 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 stated.
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 also file a chargesheet in opposition to the corporate, Kunhadi Circle Inspector Arvind Bhardwaj stated.
Supplying smoking materials and tobacco to minors is a severe offence and police, throughout investigation, may also take note of the corporate’s distribution community of prohibited gadgets in different cities, he stated Inventory and provide registers, recovered from the corporate’s retailer, have been seized for examination, he stated.
The accused was produced earlier than court docket on Sunday and despatched to jail, the officer stated.
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