An operational team of Special Response Battalion-14, CPC-2, Bhairab camp arrested two women with 16 kg of ganja in Bhairab, Kishoreganj.[1] The arrested women were identified as 42-year-old Farida Begum and 18-year-old Ayesha Akhtar.[1] Both women are from Kishoreganj district.[1] Officers arrested them around 2:30 pm on Friday, 30 October, on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway on the east side of the Syed Nazrul Islam Bridge.[1]
Acting on a secret tip, the SRB-14, CPC-2, Kishoreganj operational team set up a special checkpoint on the highway and searched a passenger leguna, detaining the two women travelling dressed as passengers.[1] In the presence of witnesses, officers recovered 16 kg of ganja concealed in plastic and cloth bags hidden under their seats.[1] Officers also seized one mobile phone and 2,060 taka in cash from them.[1]
The SRB said the two women had long collected drugs from various border areas and sold them in Kishoreganj and other places.[1] The detainees were handed over to Bhairab Police Station with the recovered ganja, phone and cash for further legal action.[1]
