Pune: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Pune will destroy gutkha worth Rs. 2.70 crore it had seized from this district last year sources said here  on Thursday.

“The gutkha of Goa-1000 brand was intercepted and seized by FDA, Konkan division, during a raid carried out at Kirti Industries at Dundalwadi in Dahanu in the district in August 2012 when it was being smuggled out for export, FDA Joint Commissioner (Food) P M Raut told the sources.

The Bombay High Court had in 2012 upheld the ban on gutkha and pan masala, both of which are flavoured tobacco products.”The seized stock will be taken from FDA headquarters in suburban Bandra of Mumbai to Pune and destroyed in the premises of Rokem Greenfield there,” Raut said.