Gutkha

cleared
Mahesh Buddi/9.40 pm//dk//9.57 pm
Hyderabad: Rachakonda police on Sunday busted two gutkha manufacturing rackets and arrested 12 persons.
The SOT sleuths of Rachakonda raided a gutkha manufacturing facility in Mamidipally of Pahadisharif and arrested Syed Rasheed, Rahul Pathak, Gowtam Gupta, Anup Kumar Kateria, Pramod Kumar Vaish, Nandasool, Hari Rajputh, Ranjith, Kallu Y, Arjun Katheria, Md Jaweed.Cops seized 200 kilos of gutkha, raw material and a car from their possession.
In another case, Adibhatla police raided a gutkha manufacturing facility near ORR Bongulur toll gate and arrested its owner, Baban.
Police seized gutkha manufacturing equipment, raw material to manufacture gutkha and other incriminating evidence. Cops registered criminal cases against the offenders and they would be produced in court on Monday.