6 held with 60 g ganja in Chandpur 24-hour police drive
Chandpur district police arrested six drug suspects in a 24-hour district-wide drive on 7 November 2026, seizing 60 grams of ganja alongside yaba tablets. The same operation also held 38 Awami League activists and detained 25 teenagers, who are not counted in the cannabis figures.
Chandpur district police arrested 44 people in a 24-hour drive, including 38
Awami League leaders and activists and 6 drug suspects.[1][2][3]Officers also
detained 25 teenagers in an anti-teen-gang drive.[1][3]
The raids ran across the district on Saturday 7 November, and the figures were
released at night by the media cell of the superintendent of police’s office.[1][2][4]The drive was run on the instructions of Superintendent Md Mizanur Rahman
to control law and order and curb crime.[1]
In the anti-drug part, six people were arrested.[1][4][3][5]Haimchar police held one
person with 2 yaba pieces, Faridganj police held 2 people with 2 yaba pieces,
Matlab Uttar police held 1 person with 20 grams of ganja, and Shahrasti police
held 2 people with 40 grams of ganja.[1][2][6][3]In total police reported recovering
60 grams of ganja and 6 yaba pieces in the drive.[1][2][4]
Additional Superintendent Nadia Nur said 24 of the detained teenagers were
handed to their families on bond after checks, and legal action was taken
against one.[1][2][4][3][5]She said legal action was taken against the arrested Awami
League members and drug suspects and that such drives would continue.[1][4]
In total police reported recovering 60 grams of ganja and 4 yaba pieces in the drive.[3][5]Chandpur police media cell released the figures on Sunday morning from the superintendent’s office.[3]
The figures were given in a press statement sent by Chandpur district police on Sunday 8 November.[5]The 24-hour drive ran on Saturday 7 November in the areas of the district’s police stations, on the instructions of Superintendent Md Mizanur Rahman.[5]Chandpur Sadar Model police station arrested 12 Awami League leaders and activists, Faridganj 8, Matlab Dakshin 2, Matlab Uttar 4, Hajiganj 4, Shahrasti 2 and Kachua 6.[5]The anti-teen-gang drive detained 3 teenagers at Chandpur Sadar Model station, 4 at Haimchar, 5 at Faridganj, 4 at Matlab Dakshin, 4 at Hajiganj and 5 at Kachua.[5]Additional Superintendent of Police (Administration and Finance) Nadira Nur confirmed the figures.[5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
6
Cannabis
60 g
Agencies
Chandpur district police; Haimchar police station; Faridganj police station; Matlab Uttar police station; Shahrasti police station
The incident date of 7 November 2026 is the raid date stated in the text; 8 November 2026 is the article's publication date.
Yaba is a methamphetamine tablet and is excluded from cannabis figures; 60 grams is the whole ganja weight given.
Only three of the six drug arrests are identified as ganja cases; the other three held yaba pieces only, and the six are counted together as drug arrests as in the earlier Chandpur drive report.
No names, ages, charges or court outcomes were reported for the six drug suspects beyond legal action being taken.
Only one outlet account of this drive could be opened; no separate police statement was found.
A second outlet, Chandpur Kantho, published the same 44/38/6/25 figures, the same 60 grams of ganja and the same station split for this Saturday 7 November drive, so the account is no longer single-sourced.
bdnews24.com and Chandpur Kantho put the figures' release on the morning of Sunday 8 November, while the report's cited account described a night-time release; both may describe the same media cell briefing.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in চাঁদপুর কণ্ঠ: Chandpur Kantho reported that six drug suspects were arrested in the drive, and placed the 40 grams of ganja and two arrests at Shahrasti, 20 grams and one arrest at Matlab Uttar, and two yaba pieces each at Faridganj and Haimchar.
The account puts the six drug arrests at one each in Haimchar and Matlab Uttar and two each in Faridganj and Shahrasti, the same split other accounts of this drive reported.
The account says police recovered 60 grams of ganja and 4 yaba pieces, while other accounts of this drive put the yaba total at 6 pieces.
The account gives 8 November as the morning the figures were released, the same day the article was published, while other accounts described a release on the night of 7 November.
The account reports 25 teenagers detained in the anti-teen-gang part, while the report's existing accounts put that figure at 19 for the drive of 24 hours to 6 November.
Amar Sangbad gives 4 yaba pieces in total, against 6 pieces in other accounts of this drive; yaba is a methamphetamine tablet and does not affect the cannabis figures.
Amar Sangbad gives 44 total arrests without separating the 38 Awami League arrests from the 6 drug arrests that other accounts of this drive state.
Ajker Patrika attributes five drug arrests by station but gives six drug suspects in the 44 total, so the station split does not add up to six.
Ajker Patrika reports four yaba pieces in total, where other accounts of this drive gave six; yaba is a methamphetamine tablet and does not affect the cannabis figures.
Ajker Patrika says the figures were released on Sunday morning by the media cell, while other accounts describe a release on the night of 7 November; both may describe the same briefing.
No names, charges or court outcomes for the drug suspects are reported.
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.
