The Bada Bazar police have busted an illegal tobacco manufacturing unit at Harida Khandi in the Santi Nagar area here and arrested two persons in this connection from the unit.
The arrested persons were identified as Suresh Moharanaa and Santosh Sahu. However, three others Kailash Sahu, Sankarsana Gouda and Rajesh Anna were managed to flee from the spot.
During the raid, the police seized 30 sacks of finished product, raw materials and five machines used for manufacturing of tobacco. The unit was preparing duplicate Gutkha packets. The cost of the seized Gutkha is around Rs 4 lakh, said IIC Suresh Tripathy.