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DFS gets SC nod to sell cigarettes sans pictorial warnings at airports 

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed DFS India Private Ltd to continue its operations and sell international cigarette brands and other tobacco products in duty-free outlets at the departure lounges of the international airports without any statutory pictorial warnings.

A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan asked the customs department to release its confiscated goods and sell the same to passengers travelling overseas in accordance with law.

DFS had challenged the Bombay High Court's judgment that refused to interfere with the authorities that restrained sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.

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