The Baleswar police on Friday arrested a person who was smuggling around 30 grams of brown sugar stashed the contraband in a fish to West Bengal.
The arrestee, identified as Sheikh Munna, is a resident of Dantan village in Medinipur district of West Bengal.
Acting on a tipoff, the cops conducted a raid and nabbed him near the Laxmannath toll plaza under the Jaleswar police limits and seized the brown sugar, estimated to be worth Rs 30 lakh, from his possession.
Munna was peddling the narcotic in three packets by stashing it in a fish in an attempt to escape from police radar. However, he was caught by police midway.
The cops took him to custody and began interrogating him, sources said.