Hookah parlour operated by students raided, two held in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: The Commissioner’s Task Force (North) raided a hookah parlour at Abid Road and caught two degree students who were operating the parlour on Friday. The police seized a large quantity of hookah pots, flavours and over Rs 47,000. Acting on a tip off, the team raided the Chill on Hill Lounge parlour at Sanali […]

Hyderabad: The Commissioner’s Task Force (North) raided a hookah parlour at Abid Road and caught two degree students who were operating the parlour on Friday. The police seized a large quantity of hookah pots, flavours and over Rs 47,000.

Acting on a tip off, the team raided the Chill on Hill Lounge parlour at Sanali Mall. Mohd Badruddin (24), a degree student and organizing manager of the hookah parlour along Mohd Shoeib (19), also a degree student, who supplied the hookah flavours, were caught. The owner of the lounge Mohd Abdul was absconding.

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“They were the hookah flavors containing nicotine to customers apart from hookah tobacco to customers in no smoking areas and flouting rules,” police said.