41 kg of ganja seized from a van at Bhanga toll plaza; two arrested
SRB-10 officers seized 41 kg of ganja from a covered van at a checkpost beside the Bhanga toll plaza in Faridpur on 6 November 2026 and valued it at about 1.23 million taka. A second checkpost at the same toll plaza found 71 bottles of Winsex codeine syrup, not cannabis, and the drugs and arrested men went to police for a Narcotics Control Act case.
SRB-10 valued the 41 kg of ganja at about 1.23 million taka.[1][2][3]
At 2:30 pm a second search, on the other side of the toll plaza, found 71
bottles of Winsex, a codeine-based cough syrup sold unlawfully in Bangladesh,
which is not cannabis.[1][2][3]SRB-10 put the estimated market value of the drugs
found in both searches at about 1.443 million taka.[1][2][3]The arrests were
announced in a press release signed by Tapan Sarkar, an assistant police
superintendent who is SRB-10’s assistant director for media.[1]
SRB-10 said the arrested men had for a long time collected ganja and Winsex
syrup from border areas and supplied them around Faridpur and elsewhere in the
country.[1][2][3]
SRB-10 arrested two men described as active members of a drug ring, one in each of the two searches at the toll plaza.[2]The man held with the ganja is 36 and lives in Pirojpur district.[2]The man held with the syrup is 56 and lives in Munshiganj district.[2]Officers seized31,185 taka in cash and a phone from the man held with the ganja, and impounded the covered van used to carry the drugs.[2]Officers recovered 900 taka and a phone from the man held with the syrup.[2]The page says both men were handed to the police station with jurisdiction and that legal proceedings were under way.[2]
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No figure was published for the plants behind the 41 kg of ganja or for where it was grown.
The two arrests were separate searches at separate checkposts, with cannabis found in only the first; they are reported together because one SRB-10 press release announced both.
The press release says two men were arrested, but the arrest count could not be retained in the structured figures because the quotation check would not confirm the passage, so the number of arrests is described in the text only.
No charge sheet, case number or court outcome was reported; the pair were handed to the local police station for a case.
The 71 bottles of Winsex syrup are not cannabis, so their count and 213,000 taka value are left out of the figures.
The page's lead photo is captioned only with the headline and is not established to show this seizure.
Both articles reproduce the same SRB-10 press release, so the account rests on one official source.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Daily Campus: The searches took place at midday on 6 November, on the Dhaka-Barishal and Khulna-Dhaka highways on the two sides of the toll plaza.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Daily Campus: At 12:25 pm a team of Special Response Battalion-10, a Bangladesh police unit known by its Bengali initials SRB, set up a temporary checkpost beside the toll plaza, searched a covered van and found 41 kg of ganja, the dried cannabis widely sold in Bangladesh.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Daily Campus: The seized drugs and the arrested men were handed to the police station with jurisdiction so that a case could be filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
Left out kg seized, as its quotation was not found in The Daily Campus.
The page gives 213,000 taka for the 71 bottles of Winsex syrup, written in words as two lakh thirteen thousand; the syrup is not cannabis, so its count and value are excluded from the cannabis figures.
The page says both men were handed to the relevant police station and that legal proceedings were under way, giving no charge sheet, case number or court outcome.
The 71 bottles of Winsex syrup and their 213,000 taka value are not cannabis and stay out of cannabis figures.
Two people were detained in separate anti-drug raids in Rajapur, Jhalakathi, with officers seizing 250 g of ganja and yaba tablets. A mobile court sentenced one man to one year and three months in prison with a 2,000-taka fine, while police filed a drug case against the second man.
Arrested 2Cannabis 250 gPrison 1 year 3 monthsFine BDT 2,000
Khulna's Special Response Battalion arrested 26-year-old Tarek Hossain at Katakhali Mor in Fakirhat with eight kilograms of ganja. Police filed a Narcotics Control Act case and sent him to jail through the Bagerhat court.
Officers arrested 58-year-old Abdus Salam Sarkar at his house in Purba Guadohuri, Dhunat, Bogura, seizing 1.5 kg of ganja. A case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act and the accused was sent to court.
Police in Dumki, Patuakhali arrested a 20-year-old youth with 20 grams of ganja during a nighttime road patrol in Lebukhali Union on 11 November 2026. A case was filed at Dumki police station under the Narcotics Control Act.
