12 held with 740 g of ganja in a 24-hour Chandpur police drive
Chandpur district police arrested 12 people accused in drug cases in separate raids by its police stations in the 24 hours to 6 November 2026, recovering 740 grams of ganja and 166 yaba tablets. The same drive held 62 Awami League leaders and activists and 19 teenage gang members, who are not counted as cannabis arrests here.
Police in Chandpur district arrested 12 people in drug cases during separate raids by the district’s
police stations in the 24 hours to Friday 6 November 2026.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]They recovered 740 grams of
ganja and 166 pieces of yaba, a methamphetamine tablet.[1][2][5][6][7]The figures were released on the
morning of Saturday 7 November by the media cell of the superintendent’s office[2][8][3], in a
statement signed by Nadira Nur, additional superintendent for administration and finance.[1][2][3]The drives ran on the instruction of district police superintendent Md Mizanur Rahman[1][2][3][4][5]and followed an arson attack the previous Thursday on the memorial to the martyrs of 2024 at the
Shahid Minar in Chandpur town.[6]
By station
Faridganj station arrested two people with 540 grams of ganja and 50 yaba pieces, Matlab Dakshin four
with 50 grams of ganja and 30 yaba pieces, and Shahrasti two with 150 grams of ganja, together the 740
grams reported.[1][2][8][3][5]Officers in Haimchar arrested one person with two yaba pieces, Kachua one
with 26 yaba pieces, and Matlab Uttar two with seven; in Hajiganj police recovered 51 yaba pieces
left by a suspect who fled.[1][2][8][3][5]Police said legal proceedings had been completed against those
arrested, and that such drives would continue.[1][2][3][5]
Other arrests
In the same operation police arrested 62 leaders and activists of the banned Awami League and its
affiliated organisations, bringing the total arrested to 74[8][3]: six at Faridganj, 31 at Chandpur
Sadar Model, six at Shahrasti, seven at Hajiganj and 12 at Matlab Uttar.[8][3][4][5]They also held 19
members of teenage gangs[1][2][3][4][5], at Faridganj (seven), Chandpur Sadar Model, Haimchar and
Hajiganj (four each).[5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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Open questions the AI reported
Only one article could be found for this drive; no police statement page or second outlet report could be opened.
The statement gives no dates, places or charges for the individual raids beyond the station names, and no court outcome.
Yaba is a methamphetamine tablet and is not counted in the cannabis figures; 740 grams is the whole ganja weight given.
The statement says legal process against the arrested was completed without saying whether charge sheets were filed or whether they appeared in court.
Police said the 19 detained teenagers were handed to their families on bond after checks of their age and offences; no case is reported against them.
The page picture is captioned only with the headline and carries no credit, so it is not included as media.
Jugantor gives the Awami League arrests by station (six in Faridganj, 31 in Chandpur Sadar Model, six in Shahrasti, seven in Hajiganj, 12 in Matlab Uttar) but not the station split of the 12 drug arrests.
No charge sheet or court appearance is reported for the 12 arrested; the article says only that legal proceedings were taken against them.
The article does not say who the 51 yaba pieces at Hajiganj belonged to, since the suspect there fled.
This account places 26 yaba pieces at Kachua police station, while the earlier report left the recovery unattributed and listed Kachua only as one of the stations involved.
Neither account says which stations made the 12 drug arrests beyond Faridganj, Matlab Dakshin and Shahrasti, which are the only stations with ganja figures.
This account describes the window as the last 12 hours while the earlier report described 24 hours to 6 November; both are the district police's own framing of one release.
No charge sheets, arrests of the Hajiganj suspect who fled, or court outcomes were reported.
This account attributes 26 yaba pieces to Shahrasti police station, while the earlier accounts left that recovery unattributed
It does not say when the overnight drives began, so it does not settle whether they ran from Thursday 5 November or Friday 6 November.
This English account and a Daily Observer English report carry the same police release; the Jagonews24 live pages and the Observer page returned access errors and only the captured Jagonews24 article could be read.
This account places the 26 yaba pieces at Shahrasti police station, while an earlier account assigned them to Kachua.
Dhaka Post frames the drive as 24 hours but also describes the Awami League arrests over the last 12 hours, and gives no start time for the raids.
No charge sheets, court appearances or outcome were reported for the 12 drug-case arrests beyond the statement that legal proceedings were taken.
Amar Desh frames the operation as the 24 hours to the morning of 7 November 2026, while the report dates it to the 24 hours to 6 November; the identical cannabis figures point to the same drive described a day later.
Amar Desh counts 43 Awami League leaders and activists, against 62 in the other accounts; its 43 plus 12 drug arrests plus 19 teenagers adds to 74 arrested, while other accounts count 74 arrested plus 19 detained teenagers separately.
Amar Desh attributes the 26 yaba pieces to Shahrasti police station and names no Kachua recovery, supporting the Jugantor attribution already noted in the report's open questions.
Amar Desh gives no per-station arrest counts for the 12 drug arrests, only the station-by-station recoveries.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in আমার দেশ: Faridganj police recovered 540 grams of ganja and 50 yaba pieces, Matlab Dakshin police 50 grams of ganja and 30 yaba pieces, and Shahrasti police 150 grams of ganja and 26 yaba pieces.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in আমার দেশ: Police said legal proceedings were completed against those arrested in the narcotics cases.
This account gives no per-station counts for the 12 drug arrests, only the recoveries by station, so it does not resolve which stations made them.
It lists 166 yaba pieces in total but its station-by-station figures sum to more than that, so the yaba split is not reliable.
It does not say whether charge sheets were filed or the 12 appeared in court.
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.
