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Kolkata, October 20 (IANS) A woman from Bihar was arrested with banned narcotics worth Rs 1.50 crore on Monday in Kaliachak in Malda district of West Bengal. An officer gave this information.
Police have identified the accused as Kanchan Devi, a resident of Bhagalpur in Malda district of West Bengal.
He was produced before a district court in Malda on Monday afternoon and the court sent him to police custody. Police suspect that he is part of a major interstate drug trafficking racket operating in the region.
An officer said the accused would be further interrogated in police custody to get details of his associates in the racket.
During preliminary interrogation, he confessed that he had purchased the consignment of drugs from Malda and was to take it to Bihar.
Police from Baishnabnagar police station had received information on Sunday about an attempt to smuggle a large consignment of narcotics out of the state from the area, a police source said.
Police started investigating the case and early on Monday they found the accused woman wandering mysteriously at a particular intersection in the area. The police caught him and interrogated him.
When the police found her statement contradictory, they examined the handbag she was carrying. There, 1.34 kg of banned brown sugar was recovered from them, whose estimated market value is around Rs 1.5 crore.
He was first detained and brought to the local police station, where another round of integration took place.
A district police officer said, “When interrogated, she confessed that she hails from Bhagalpur in Bihar, and that she had come to Malda to take an assignment of narcotics and transport them to Bihar. We suspect that she is just a part of a larger interstate drug trafficking racket, with Malda as its base.”
–IANS
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