The city’s Bada Bazar police on Thursday busted a spurious gutkha manufacturing unit at Penthasahi here and detained a person in this connection.
Acting on a tipoff, a police team raided the house of one Rama Chandra Das, where adulteration of gutkha was being done. As many as 105 sacks of gutkha, a machine and a sharp weapon were seized from the house, a police official said.
While Rama Chandra Das absconded, his younger brother Harihar Das was detained for questioning, the official added.