{"id":229525,"date":"2021-05-05T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/05\/05\/dssu-seize-tobacco-products\/"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:32:53","slug":"dssu-seize-tobacco-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/05\/dssu-seize-tobacco-products\/","title":{"rendered":"DSSU seize tobacco products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2021_5$large_DSSU_seize_tobacco_products.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Dimapur Sumi Students&rsquo; Union (DSSU) Wednesday informed that it conducted a surprise checking on sale of tobacco products and destroyed seized items &ldquo;worth thousands of rupees&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, DSSU general secretary N. Mugha Aye and finance secretary Holloto Yeptho stated that the &ldquo;illegal seized products&rdquo; were destroyed in the presence of Sumi Council Dimapur and DSSU advisors.<\/p>\n<p>DSSU stated that the checking was initiated since the business establishments sold the tobacco products, which affected people&rsquo;s health, beyond the fixed price despite repeated warning.<\/p>\n<p>The union stated that the hiking prices on the pretext of Covid and selling the products to children below 18 years of age were illegal.<\/p>\n<p>It also stated that sale and promotion of the same within 100-meter radius of educational institutions was unlawful under the COTPA, 2003.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further, DSSU has reaffirmed against selling of daily essential commodities beyond the MRP including prices of Gutkhas which had recently seen a price hike.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSSU seize tobacco products, latest naga new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}