The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai crime branch has arrested a 40-year-old man for alleged possession of ganja worth over Rs 8 lakh in Worli area here, an official said on Saturday.

Acting on a tip-off, the ANC's Azad Maidan unit nabbed Shivkumar Shankar Basaiyya near Worli dairy employees'' colony on Friday evening, the official said.