Gutkha and other banned tobacco products worth ₹39.69 lakh were seized in Palghar in Maharashtra, a Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) police official said on Monday.
Acting on a tip off, police held one Shakil Khan who told them that two container trucks were parked on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway with the contraband, police said.
“We raided the spot in Kasa in Dahanu, seized gutkha and other tobacco products in the two container trucks and arrested their drivers,” the Valiv police station official said.
The sale of gutkha is a non-bailable offence in the state of Maharashtra and carries a sentence of up to three years in prison.
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