TMC member arrested with contraband opium
Rs 1.5 lakh from him.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of NCB officials rushed to the area and arrested Pramanik and seized the booty yesterday, NCB officials said.
Altogether nine crude bombs and a bullet were also seized from Pramanik, they said.
Pramanik was later produced before a Malda Court, which remaded him to police custody for 10 days.
Pramanik, a former GP Member of CPI(M), joined the TMC last year.
The NCB officials today brought Pramanik to Kolkata for interrogation.