Jaisalmer: Kotwali police and District Special Team (DST) Thursday night arrested a woman for allegedly carrying drugs and seized 73.6 grams of illegal MD (mephedrone) from her possession.The accused was identified as Shantabai (33), a resident of Ward 12, Dhoti, under Agar police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Agar Malwa district. She had been living in rented accommodation in Jaisalmer.According to police, DST in charge Bhimrao Singh received information that a woman from Madhya Pradesh was carrying MD in her bag and was headed towards a rented house in Gandhi Colony.Acting on the information, a police team reached Gandhi Colony and cordoned off the area. The woman was intercepted and her bag searched, following which police recovered the drug.The seized substance was taken into custody and the woman was brought to the police station for questioning. She was subsequently arrested under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
