Nashik, Oct 18: Vavi police have seized illegally sold gutkha and pan masala from Samrat Kiran’s shop in Dapur village, Sinnar taluka, of the district.
Police also arrested the shopkeeper.
According to the police, a Samrat grocery shop is situated in Dapur village. Shop owner Prashant Prabhakar Awad (33) was arrested at Dapur Tuesday when he was found to have illegally kept aromatic pan masala and gutkha in a closed room adjacent to the shop along with the grocery items.
During the raid by the police, 88 sachets of Saffron Vimal Pan Masala Blue Green Color Gutkha with a printed price of one and 11 sachets of Hira Pan Masala with tobacco containing 88 sachets of Aromatic Green Blue Yellow Color Gutkha worth Rs 31,000 thousand were seized.
