Kolkata: A woman from Bihar was arrested with Rs 1.50 crore banned narcotics in her possession at Kaliachak in Malda district of West Bengal on Monday, an official said.

The police have identified the accused as Kanchan Devi, a resident of Bhagalpur in Malda district of West Bengal.

She was presented at a district court in Malda on Monday afternoon, and the court remanded her to police custody. The cops suspect that she is a part of a major interstate narcotics smuggling racket operating in the region.

An official said that the accused would be interrogated further in police custody to get the details of her associates in the racket.

In the face of initial interrogation, she had confessed that she procured the narcotics consignments from Malda and was supposed to take it to Bihar.

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