Media Release
Mangaluru, Jul 1: In a special and mass drive against use of cigarettes and tobacco in the vicinity of school and colleges, across city, totally 365 shops, establishments were searched and found 83 shops with cigarettes or gutka or both.
The police booked all of them under COTPA - Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act and all were fined with Rs 200 each. Such drives would continue further, informed the police sources.