Special Response Battalion-9 and Sarail Battalion (25 BGB) carried out separate operations in Bijaynagar.[1][2] Two people, including a woman, were arrested in these incidents.[1] The arrests were made on Saturday 31 October in different areas of Bijaynagar upazila.[1] The cannabis suspect is 25-year-old Abul Bashar of Chhatarpur village, son of Sayed Mia.[1][2] The same day at noon, a joint SRB-9 CPC-1 and 25 BGB Sarail team raided a house in Kalachhara, Bishnupur Union, and detained 50-year-old Rahana Begum as she tried to flee.[1]
An SRB-9 CPC-1 team set up a checkpoint in front of Bishnupur High School on the Bijaynagar-Chakbazar road at about 5:30 pm and stopped a green CNG auto-rickshaw whose driver tried to U-turn and flee.[1][2] After Bashar admitted cannabis was in his custody, officers searched two jute sacks on the CNG’s back seat and recovered 20 kg of ganja wrapped in blue polythene and khaki scotch tape.[1][2] On Rahana’s indication, officers recovered 197 bottles of Escaf syrup from khaki cartons wrapped in four jute sacks under a bed in a tin-shed mud room.[1]
An SRB-9 press release said initial questioning found both had collected the drugs from Brahmanbaria border areas to keep for sale.[1][2] Cases under the Narcotics Control Act, 2018 were prepared against both suspects and they were handed with the drugs to Bijaynagar police.[1][2] The press release said SRB-9 intelligence work and operations continue to implement a zero-tolerance policy against drugs.[1]
