Ghaziabad: 18 held in alleged hookah bar bust on 11th floor, police say

Ghaziabad: Nandgram Police said it arrested 18 people in connection with an alleged hookah bar operating from three flats in Rajnagar Residency, Raj Nagar Extension.

According to police, it received information that an illegal hookah bar was being run from flats 1101, 1102 and 1103 on the 11th floor of the society. The police team then conducted an operation at the premises. Police said the area was filled with smoke when the team arrived.

Police claim recovery of hookahs and flavoured tobacco

Nandgram Police said it recovered four hookahs with chillams, 19 black pipes, one blue and one yellow pipe, a packet of hookah nipples, five yellow-metal nozzles, eight plastic nozzles, a metal tong, three coil heaters, a packet of coils and packets of flavoured tobacco. Police named Royal Smoking Flavoured Sheesha Molasses and Al Fakher among the packets it said were recovered.

Police said further legal action is under way. The information supplied for this report did not identify the people said to have been arrested. The arrest and recovery claims could not be independently verified.

Source: Information and photographs supplied by Nandgram Police.