The accused were on their way to Delhi from Guwahati when their vehicle was intercepted by the police.The Delhi Police on Monday seized over 9,000 packets of prohibited cigarettes, worth around Rs 26 lakh, from four passengers travelling in an SUV on the Delhi-Noida border, police said.The officials have arrested the passengers identified as Mukeem, Sameer, and two women who revealed that they obtained the cigarette packets from Guwahati and were smuggled from Myanmar.“Upon inspection, it was found that the seized cigarette packets did not bear the statutory health warnings mandated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India,” Sanjeev Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) said.The accused were on their way to Delhi from Guwahati when their vehicle was intercepted by the police.“The accused disclosed that they hired the women from Delhi to pose themselves as family members so that they could not be stopped by any police persons on the way from Guwahati to Delhi,” the officer said.The police said Mukeem and Sameer are unemployed and hail from Uttar Pradesh. They have also seized the vehicle that belongs to Sameer.One of the women lives in Delhi with her parents, while the other woman hails from Lucknow and both are known to each otherStory continues below this adThe seizure was made by a team led by inspectors Mangesh Tyagi and Robin Tyagi under the close supervision of ACP Arvind Kumar, Yadav said.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:cigarettes