10 November,2023 02:01 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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Thane crime: As many as seven paan shop owners have been arrested for allegedly stocking and selling banned gutka and tobacco products in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Friday, reported the PTI.
According to the PTI, a team of officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday conducted raids and found some paan shop owners stocking up on banned gutka and tobacco products, sub-inspector Ranjit Walke of the Narpoli police station of Bhiwandi division said on Friday.
The seven arrested suspects have been booked under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and FDA regulations, he said.
In an another incident in September, the police in Maharashtra's Palghar district have seized gutka and banned tobacco products worth nearly Rs 19.5 lakh from a tempo and arrested its driver, an official told news agency PTI.
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The police recovered the banned tobacco products from a tempo while patrolling within the limits of Modgaon-Haladpada on Wednesday, Yogesh Jadhav, Palghar district PRO API had told PTI.
A case has been registered in the matter at Kasa police station, and cops are trying to find out from where Sahni obtained the banned products and to whom he intended to deliver the stock, reported PTI.
Meanwhile, a 52-year-old convict who jumped parole 12 years ago and managed to evade police has been arrested on the outskirts of Mumbai, an official said on Friday, reported the PTI.
Nasirali Sherali Khan was convicted by the Mumbai sessions court in May 2010 under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and sentenced to ten years of rigorous imprisonment. He was subsequently sent to the Nashik Road Central Jail.
Khan, a Mumbai resident, walked out of the jail in February 2011 on a 30-day parole but never returned, said the official. A case was then registered against him under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 224 (resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) in October 2013.
The Mira-Bhayandar, Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police recently learnt that Khan was living with his second wife in Mira Road. They laid a trap and arrested him on Wednesday, said Rahul Rakh of the central crime unit of MBVV police.
Khan has been handed over to the Mumbai police, he added.
(with PTI inputs)
