131 drug arrests in Chattogram sweep with 30.435 kg cannabis seized
Police in Chattogram Range arrested 131 people on drug charges in a 24-hour operation on 2-3 November 2026 and seized 30.435 kg of cannabis. Mobile courts jailed 23 people, 35 drug cases were filed and Tk 10,600 was collected in fines.
🇧🇩 Chattogram Range, Bangladesh
Arrested
131
Cannabis
30.435 kg
Fine
BDT 10,600
Police in Chattogram Range arrested 131 people on drug charges during a 24-hour
special operation.[1]Eighty-four of them were held in drug-related cases,
including one drug carrier and 83 drug users.[1]Forty-seven others were held
as suspected drug dealers in regular and other cases.[1]Mobile courts
sentenced 23 people to imprisonment in the anti-drug drives.[1]Authorities
filed 35 drug-related cases and collected Tk 10,600 in fines during the drives.[1]
Officers seized30 kilograms and 435 grams of cannabis in the same operation.[1]The same seizure also included 17,044 yaba pills, 188 litres of locally
brewed liquor, six bottles of foreign liquor and 697 bottles of Skaf cough syrup
alongside the cannabis.[1]
The drug operation was part of a wider 24-hour special operation across the
Chattogram Range targeting juvenile gangs, mugging, extortion, terrorist
activities and drug-related offences.[1]The operation ran between Monday 2
November and Tuesday 3 November, according to police.[1]Police said the
special operation would continue in the public interest.[1]
The report counts only the 131 drug-related arrests because the sweep total of 1,149 arrested or detained covers all offences including juvenile gangs.
The reports do not say how many of the 131 drug arrests involved cannabis rather than yaba, liquor or cough syrup.
No prison terms were given for the 23 people jailed by mobile courts, so no prison figure can be recorded.
Yaba pills, locally brewed and foreign liquor and Skaf cough syrup are mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and are excluded from cannabis figures.
The operation ran overnight between 2 and 3 November 2026 and the report uses 2 November as the incident date.
Only one accessible source for this 2-3 November operation could be opened; matching reports were found in search but their pages could not be opened and are not cited.
The page photo is captioned only with the operation headline and is not established to show this seizure, so no media entry is included.
No arrested person was named and no later court outcome beyond the mobile-court sentences was reported.
SRB-14 officers arrested four suspected traders at a Ghatail checkpoint after finding 30 kg of ganja hidden in luggage on a Mymensingh-to-Panchagarh bus. A case was filed at Ghatail Police Station and the detainees were handed to Ghatail police with the drugs and four phones.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 547 people and filed 68 cases during 24 hours of raids across the capital on 3 November 2026. Police seized 62.69 kg of ganja alongside yaba, Winserex, phensedyl and country liquor, with further legal action said to be under way.
Rajpara police arrested Rumman Ali and Khondakar Shakil Hossain Palash with 195 grams of ganja at Dashpukur Bypass in Rajshahi on 2 November 2026. Police filed cases under the Narcotics Control Act and sent the men to jail through the court the next morning.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 549 people and filed 57 cases during 24 hours of raids across the capital, seizing 29.2 kg of cannabis alongside yaba and phensedyl. The Mirpur division made the most arrests, and police say further legal action is under way.
