Jammu, May 16 (PTI) Two Punjab residents were taken into custody on Sunday for trying to smuggle 16 quintals of banned polythene bags in a mini-load carrier in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

The Jammu-bound vehicle loaded with potatoes was stopped and searched by a police party at Tapyal near Ghagwal on Jammu-Pathankot highway, resulting in the seizure of 64 sacks of polythene bags which were being transported illegally, a police official said.

Driver Baljinder Paul and owner Jasvinder Singh, both residents of Punjab, were detained and the pollution control department, Samba, was informed for further action, he said.

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