Hyderabad, April 11 -- The Hyderabad police on Friday, April 10, busted an illegal electronic cigarette racket and arrested three accused with 999 e-cigarettes and vapes worth Rs 34.03 lakhs in Nampally.

The Khairatabad Commissioner's task force with the Nampally police station set a trap near A Battery Line in Bazarghat and apprehended two individuals, Mohammed Ahmed, 36, and Mohammed Aszad Raza alias Arhan, aged 30.

According to the police, one of the accused, Ahmed, was caught while delivering 180 banned e-cigarettes on a two-wheeler. Arhan, the intended recipient of the contraband, was reportedly acting as per the directions of the third accused, Vinit Mantri (33).

The authorities later arrested Mantri at his residence in Attapur, ...