Two held as SRB-7 seizes 111 kg of cannabis in Chauddagram
SRB-7 and SRB-11 detained two Chapainawabganj men after chasing a cargo truck to Baburchi Bazar in Chauddagram, Cumilla, and finding 111 kg of ganja inside. The truck was seized and the cannabis was valued at 1,110,000 taka, with legal action pending.
A joint patrol team of SRB-7 Chattogram and SRB-11 Narayanganj acted on secret
information and chased a cargo truck in a patrol pickup.[1][2]The team signalled
the truck to stop on the Dhaka-bound carriageway of the Chattogram-Dhaka highway
in front of the Hotel Bypass at Baburchi Bazar under Chauddagram police station
in Cumilla district.[1][2]At around 1 a.m. on Sunday the 1st, the truck’s driver
and the man sitting beside him tried to get down quickly and flee.[1]The team
detained driver Md Azam Ali (40) and Md Dablu (40), both of Shibganj in
Chapainawabganj district.[1]
Officers recovered a total of 111 kg of ganja, the local term for cannabis, from
the rear part of the cargo truck.[1][2][3][4]Officers seized the cargo truck used to
transport the drugs.[1]The authorities put the estimated value of the seized
cannabis at 1,110,000 taka.[1][5]
Further legal action over the arrested accused and the seized drugs was pending.[1][6]The same article also describes a separate CNG auto-rickshaw stop that
yielded 54 bottles of foreign liquor, which is not counted in this cannabis
report.[1][4]
Photos and video
Photo published with the report on the Chauddagram SRB operation that seized cannabis and foreign liquor and led to four arrestsPhoto details
The accounts conflict on the incident date: BD24Live prints Sunday 1 October, while Agrajatra prints Friday 2 October; both were published on 2 November 2026. The report retains 1 November because that date was a Sunday, but the month correction is unconfirmed.
The accounts spell the agency SRB-7 and SRB-11; this appears to refer to RAB, but the published spelling is retained.
The headline total of four arrests includes a separate liquor-only interception at Bijoykara Bazar; its two detainees and 54 bottles are excluded from this cannabis report.
The retained Daily Naya Diganta and Bangladesh Pratidin sources could not be reopened during consolidation; their earlier corroborating citations are retained without claiming fresh verification.
The retained Agrajatra photograph is preserved from the duplicate report, but its generic caption does not establish which of the two interceptions it depicts.
No charges, court outcome or basis for the 1,110,000 taka valuation was reported.
An earlier update recorded different suspect spellings, ages and agency attribution, but the Agrajatra page reopened for this audit agrees with BD24Live on Md Azam Ali (40), Md Dablu (40) and the joint SRB-7/SRB-11 team.
This page dates the raids to Monday 2 November, while the report retains 1 November as a Sunday; the conflict over the date is unchanged and the month correction remains unconfirmed.
The page names the driver as Md Azam Ali (40) and the second man as Md Dablu (40) without the Chapainawabganj addresses given by other accounts.
The sentence about the cargo-truck search and the officer's statement about legal steps could not be matched verbatim against the opened capture during checking, so those details rest on the report's existing sources.
The page does not state which of the two interceptions the video footage depicts.
The headline's "jora abhiyan" (twin raids) matches the report's two interceptions, but the video's own content could not be viewed, so it is not cited for any detail of the footage.
The 54 bottles of foreign liquor stay outside the cannabis figures; the page gives no weight or value for them.
Special Response Battalion officers raided Rasulpur in Bijoynagar, Brahmanbaria, after a tip about drug trading. They recovered 300 kg of ganja from a roadside crop field after the suspects fled, with no arrests reported.
Local youths in Ramanandapur caught two alleged buyers, leading police to recover about 2 kg of cannabis and cannabis plants from a seller's house. The alleged seller, Ghori Babul, fled and police said a case was under process.
Bangladesh's Border Guard Bangladesh said drives on the Satkhira border from 1 September to November 2026 netted drugs and smuggled goods worth over Tk 82.35 crore, including 240 grams of ganja and 3.13 kg of heroin, and that 152 people were arrested. The 17th battalion's commander gave the figures at a press briefing on 10 November.
Border Guard Bangladesh patrols recovered 600 grams of ganja and 100 grams of heroin found abandoned beside Namochakpara Government Primary School in Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, on the night of 5 November. Nobody was arrested, and the force said legal procedures for the seized drugs were under way.
