Brown sugar haul, 1 held in Alipurduar

A person with brown sugar worth Rs 30 lakh was arrested from here on Monday night.

Kuntal Banerjee, the additional police chief of Jaigaon, said a car was intercepted on Asian Highway 48 at Pasakha More near Jaigaon, located on the India-Bhutan border. Milan Mian, a resident of Jharnabusty in Jaigaon, was held with 300 grams of brown sugar, a derivative of heroin. Sources said the cost of the seized narcotics is around Rs 30 lakh.

Mian, booked under NDPS Act, was sent to a special court in Jalpaiguri on Thursday.