Bhayandar : Continuing its crackdown against the illegal trade of banned tobacco products, officers from the Thane unit of the Food & Drug Authority (FDA) in association with the Mira Road police seized a huge consignment of gutkha worth lakhs of rupees from an apartment in the Naya Nagar area of Mira Road late on Friday evening.
A tip-off culminated into a raid at a ground floor apartment in Century Park which led to the recovery of gunny bags stashed with thousands of sachets of gutkha, pan-masala and scented tobacco of various brands. The flat in a posh residential locality was used as a godown to store the banned substance, police said.
The process to ascertain the value of the seized consignment and filing of an FIR under the relevant sections of the IPC and regulations of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011 was on till reports last came in.
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