Police have seized gutka, a banned substance, worth more than Rs 9 lakh in Palghar district of Maharashtra, and arrested a man in this connection, an official said on Friday. The seizure was made by the Palghar district rural police on Thursday on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, he said.

"A tempo was found transporting gutka worth Rs 9,00,700 into Maharashtra. Its driver Ramsingh Deoda, 48, a resident of Navi Mumbai, was arrested and the gutka was seized," the official of Talasari police station said.