Gutkha worth Rs 70,000 seized in Waluj; case filed against four

Chhatrapati Smabhajinagar

Police seized gutkha worth Rs 70,000 and a motorcycle valued at Rs 30,000 from suspects in the Waluj industrial area. A case has been registered at MIDC Waluj Police Station against four individuals: three for possession and one for supplying banned gutkha.

Police detained Bajirao Narsing Nande (Bajajnagar) at Colgate Chowk in Bajajnagar, seizing gutkha worth Rs 35,707. In a separate raid on Sunday, they recovered gutkha valued at Rs 24,547 from the home of Ashraf Sheikh Chand Sheikh in Pandharpur. Additionally, on Kamalapur-Ranjangaon Road, police apprehended Mahendra Ravindra Ahirrao from Omsainagar, Jogeshwari, confiscating gutkha worth Rs 11,295 and a motorcycle (MH-16-AJ-2078). Mahendra admitted to purchasing the gutkha from Azhar Ahmed Beg in Kamalapur.