30 kg of ownerless Indian ganja seized in BGB raids in Habiganj
Border Guard Bangladesh seized 30 kg of ownerless Indian ganja and one bottle of Indian beer at Bazar Tila in Chunarughat, Habiganj, on the night of 10 November 2026. It was one of four border operations that day whose contraband, including beer, blankets and henna, BGB valued at 4,540,250 taka.
Acting on a tip-off, a special patrol team of the Satchari border outpost (BOP),
under the Habiganj Battalion (55 BGB), raided the Bazar Tila area of Chunarughat
upazila in Habiganj district on the night of Tuesday 10 November 2026.[1]The
patrol seized30 kg of Indian ganja and one bottle of Indian beer, found without
an owner.[1]
The ganja seizure was one of four separate operations Border Guard Bangladesh
(BGB) carried out in the district’s border areas that day.[2]The same day,
another patrol from the Teliapara BOP seized 28 bottles of Indian beer in the
Banduria area of Madhabpur upazila.[1]Two further operations at the
Muktijoddha Chattar square and the Chandichhara Mazar shrine in Madhabpur
upazila seized large quantities of illegal Indian blankets and henna.[1]
BGB put the seizure value of the blankets and henna from those two operations at
4,428,000 taka.[2]BGB estimated the market value of all the contraband seized
across the four operations at 4,540,250 taka.[2]The seized narcotics and
other illegal goods were being handed over to the Department of Narcotics
Control and the customs authorities through the legal process.[1]The
battalion’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Md. Tanzilur Rahman, said
regular patrols and special operations would continue to secure the border,
control drugs and prevent smuggling.[3]
Photos and video
Members of the Habiganj Battalion (55 BGB) with the seized contraband, including beer cartons and blankets, displayed behind the battalion's sign. Photo: JaijaidinPhoto details
No arrests or charges were reported, and the owners of the ganja were not identified.
No separate value was published for the 30 kg of ganja; the 4,540,250 taka total is BGB's estimate for all four operations, including beer, blankets and henna.
Accounts differ on whether the seized goods had already been handed over to the narcotics and customs authorities or the handover was still under way.
All three accounts reproduce the same 55 BGB press release sent on the night of 11 November 2026.
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.
