Barishal Metropolitan DB police arrested Md Iqbal Hossain, 50, outside Hotel Sweden Palace at Nathullabad bus stand on 12 November 2026. Officers recovered 6 kg of ganja from him and filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act.
🇧🇩 Hotel Sweden Palace, Nathullabad bus stand, Barishal · Bangladesh
Officers detained the man in the Nathullabad area on Thursday (12 November) afternoon and recovered 6 kg of ganja from him.[1] Police recovered 6 kg of ganja from the detained man.[1]
A second outlet also reports one drug dealer detained with 6 kg of ganja in Barishal.[2] The second outlet names the detained man as 50-year-old Md Iqbal Hossain held with 6 kg of ganja.[2]
District Detective Branch police arrested two men at Ujanisar Dakshinpara in Brahmanbaria Sadar, seizing 12 kg of ganja they were carrying by motorcycle. The men were identified as Arif Mia and Mehedi Hasan Shuvo, and further legal action was pending.
SRB-9 arrested three men with 72 kg of ganja from a covered van at a checkpoint in Stadium Para, Madhabpur, Habiganj on Thursday night. The cannabis was packed in cartons inside the van, which was seized, and the men were handed to Madhabpur police after a Narcotics Control Act case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 534 people and filed 53 cases during 24 hours of raids across the capital on 12 November 2026, seizing 6 kg of cannabis alongside yaba pills, cocktails and 925 counterfeit banknotes. Mirpur accounted for the most arrests with 147, and police said legal proceedings against those held were under way.
Police arrested a man named Alamin with two kilograms of ganja during a morning raid at East Ilisha launch ghat in Bhola Sadar on 12 November 2026. A case was filed against him at Bhola police station under the Narcotics Control Act.