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 City 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 towards 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 beneath part 77 of Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act and beneath part 9/11 of Rajasthan Prohibition of Smoking and Non-smoker’s Health Protection Act, the SP stated.
The metropolis police had already written to representatives of Blinkit firm at its workplace in Landmark City 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 can even file a chargesheet towards the corporate, Kunhadi Circle Inspector Arvind Bhardwaj stated.
Supplying smoking materials and tobacco to minors is a severe offence and police, throughout investigation, can even bear in mind the corporate’s distribution community of prohibited gadgets in different cities, he stated Stock and provide registers, recovered from the corporate’s retailer, have been seized for examination, he stated.
The accused was produced earlier than courtroom on Sunday and despatched to jail, the officer stated.
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