1,100kg gutka seized, two men arrested in Coimbatore

COIMBATORE: The rural police arrested two men and seized 1,100kg of banned tobacco products from a godown at Somanur in the city on Saturday night.
Police seized the tobacco products stocked by the men and Rs 73,400 from them. The duo, S Mothilal, 40, of Mill Road at Karumathampatti, and his younger brother S Sitaram, 36, of Somanur, was native of Rajasthan.
Police said the brothers were running a grocery shop in a rental building at Somanur and used another building as godown for stocking grocery items.
The Karumathampatti police registered a case and arrested the duo.
On November 15, 2019, the duo stored the banned tobacco products in a godown at Moppiripalayam near Karumathampatti and supplied tobacco products to Coimbatore, Pollachi, Tirupur and Erode. The Saravanampatti police arrested the brothers and seized Rs 72.28 lakh worth banned tobacco products from them.
Former city police commissioner Sumit Sharan had detained the duo under the Goondas Act in December 2019.