Gutka and banned tobacco products worth Rs 9.96 lakh were smuggled in consignments marked as clothes in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Friday, reported news agency PTI.

The matter came to light when an alert godown owner in Bhiwandi received a suspicious consignment from a transporter and he alerted the local police, assistant police inspector Somnath Karnavar-Patil of the Narpoli police station said, reported PTI.