Four held with 61 kg of ganja at a Chunarughat tea garden in Habiganj
SRB-9 arrested four residents of Chandichhara tea garden in Chunarughat, Habiganj, at about 12:55 a.m. on 28 October and seized 61 kg of ganja from four jute sacks they were carrying. Police said the men admitted collecting the cannabis from border areas of Habiganj to sell, and they were handed to Chunarughat police with the ganja after a case under the Narcotics Control Act, 2018.
A team from the Shayestaganj camp of SRB-9, the police Special Response
Battalion, arrested four men with 61 kg of ganja in Chunarughat upazila,
Habiganj district.[1]The operation took place at about 12:55 a.m. on the
night of Wednesday 28 October in the Chandichhara tea garden area of Deorgach
Union.[1]SRB-9 said it acted on a tip that several people were in the area to
buy and sell drugs, and the four were arrested as they tried to flee when they
sensed the security force.[1]
Officers searched four jute sacks the men were carrying and found 61 kg of ganja
wrapped in blue polythene and khaki-coloured adhesive tape.[1]The four
arrested were Saniraotia, 24, Paresh Munda, 28, Jay Tati, 22, and Sanjit Ralli,
24, all residents of Chandichhara tea garden in Chunarughat upazila.[1]
SRB-9’s media cell said the men told officers in initial questioning that they
had worked together to collect the ganja from border areas of Habiganj and were
holding it for sale.[1]A case was being prepared against them under the
Narcotics Control Act, 2018, and they and the recovered ganja were handed over
to Chunarughat police station.[1]SRB-9 additional superintendent of police
and media officer K M Shahidul Islam Sohag said intelligence work and operations
would continue under the zero-tolerance policy against drugs.[1]
Photos and video
Image published with the Habiganj Express report on the Chunarughat arrest of four men with 61 kg of ganja; the page carries no caption or credit, so it is not confirmed to show the seized sacks.Photo details
No street value for the 61 kg of ganja was published.
No court outcome beyond the preparation of a case under the Narcotics Control Act, 2018, was reported; the four were handed to Chunarughat police station.
The 61 kg figure is SRB-9's own count; no independent weighing was reported.
Only one openable account of this operation was found; the Bengali search results were social-media posts repeating the same report, not independent reporting.
The page image has no caption or credit and is not confirmed to show the seized sacks or the four arrested men.
The report does not say when or to whom the four planned to sell the ganja.
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Arrested 2Cannabis 250 gPrison 1 year 3 monthsFine BDT 2,000
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