All cops had to do was pose as journalists to bust a gutka racket, operating from a warehouse in Santacruz. A little over two weeks after the Mumbai police’s crime branch lifted the lid on a gutka mafia racket with the detention of three people, who revealed how Rs 60 crore worth of the banned product is smuggled into the city every month, officers from the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police raided the Santacruz godown on Tuesday.

Although the warehouse was locked, a peek inside was enough to confirm that a huge consignment of gutka was stored inside the premises. Gutka worth R80 lakh was seized from the godown.