Aizawl, Nov 2 (PTI) Assam Rifles (AR) and Customs officials seized foreign cigarettes worth Rs 2.47 crore in Mizoram's Champhai district near the Indo-Myanmar border on Wednesday, AR sources said.

Acting on specific inputs, troopers of Assam Rifles and Custom Preventive force officials carried out a joint operation at new Zotlang village and seized 190 cases of foreign cigarettes, the sources said.

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The seized cigarettes worth Rs 2.47 crore were handed over to the Customs department for further legal proceedings, the sources added.

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