A tobacco  watchdog organisation has asked the 
health authorities to fine  Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn for smoking in public while on the sets of  his film Golmaal 3 in Goa.
In a complaint, on Wednesday, to the state tobacco control cell and the  union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Organisation for  Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) general secretary Shekhar Salkar said that  Devgn, who was fined once for smoking in public in Chandigarh, deserved  more stringent action as he was becoming a habitual offender of the 'no  smoking in public' rule.
"This being the second violation by Ajay Devgn, we feel that the  punishment given to such type of habitual law breakers is too meagre. In  view of this, we strongly feel that the penalty under section 4 of the  COPTA (Control of Tobacco Products Act) law for both one who violates  the law and one who allows violating the law should be increased,"  Salkar said.
A local newspaper flashed photographs of Devgn smoking on the sets of  Golmaal 3 on Tuesday with the film's director Rohit Shetty standing an  arm's length away.
The general secretary of NOTE, which has in the past dragged Bollywood  stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan to court for directly or  indirectly promoting smoking, has also said that habitual violators of  the COPTA law should be jailed.
"Fine for the first offence should be Rs.500, for the second it should  be raised to Rs.5,000 and for the third offence an imprisonment for a  period of six months, in addition to a fine of Rs.5,000 should be  imposed," Salkar said.
Devgn is the third Bollywood actor to be caught smoking in Goa this  month.
Earlier this month, actors Tusshar Kapoor and Arshad Warsi were hauled  up by NOTE for smoking during a film shoot in Margao, 35 kms from  Panaji, Goa.