The officials of Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) today seized gutka worth over Rs 7.10 lakh at Vashi in
Navi Mumbai and arrested one person in this connection.
Acting on a specific information, an
FDA team intercepted a pick-up van carrying banned gutka that was being
smuggled into Mumbai from Bangalore at Vashi and seized pouches of Goa 1000
Gutka worth Rs 7,19,000, sources said.
They arrested Shadab Mohin Shaikh,
driver, who was working for M/s Geluvu Food Products, Bangalore.
The FDA has registered an offence
under sections 3(1), 26 and 27 read with 2.3.4 of Food Safety and Standards
(Prohibition & Restriction) Regulation, 2011 with Vashi police station,
sources added.
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