A 34-year-old woman was arrested for alleged possession of ganja and other narcotic substances in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Friday.

Mariam Salim Ali Jafrira, a resident of a locality called Sri Lanka in Mumbra, was apprehended in the early hours of Thursday, the station house officer of Mumbra police station said. The police intercepted the accused woman near a school and seized 365 gm of ganja and some other narcotic pills worth Rs 51,706 from her possession, the official said.