BGB seizes Tk 20.9 lakh of smuggled goods, ganja, on Cumilla–Brahmanbaria border
Border Guard Bangladesh patrol teams from Sultanpur Battalion (60 BGB) detained one person and seized a mixed consignment that included ganja in separate drives on the Cumilla and Brahmanbaria border on 4 November 2026. The battalion valued the haul, which also held liquor, cattle, food and household goods, at 2,090,000 taka (20 lakh 90 thousand).
🇧🇩 Saldandi, Shashidal, Kharera and Barajala outposts, Cumilla, and Akhaura and Kasba, Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh border · Bangladesh
Border Guard Bangladesh put the estimated value of goods seized in separate
drives at 2,090,000 taka, about 20 lakh 90 thousand.[1]One person was
detained in the drives.[1]The drives were separate, and the force described
the material seized as illegal smuggled goods.[1]The force said its
operations and intelligence work against smuggling, drugs, illegal entry and
trafficking of women and children would continue.[1]
Neither account gives a weight for the ganja seized in the drives.[1]Both
accounts describe the seizure as one result of a day’s drives across several
border outposts, not a single raid.[1]The haul also held fireworks, cattle,
rice, soft drinks, syrups, alcohol and beer alongside the ganja.[1]
Photos and video
Seized drugs laid out after the border drives, captioned "Seized drugs. Photo: Kalbela". Photo: KalbelaPhoto details
Neither source gives a quantity or weight for the ganja, so no cannabis figure is recorded and the taka estimate covers the whole mixed haul, not the cannabis alone.
Rupashi Bangla says the goods were seized unclaimed, while Kalbela reports that one person was detained without saying what he was held for or where.
The sources do not say whether a case was filed or which police station or court received the detainee.
Kalbela gives the value as 20 lakh 90 thousand taka while the battalion statement reproduced by Rupashi Bangla gives 20 lakh 90 thousand 120 taka; the exact figure is recorded in figures.
The drives are described as separate operations at border outposts in two districts, and the sources do not break down what was seized at each.
The most precise common location is the district level, because the outposts span two districts; the coordinates are for Cumilla district centre.
The Kalbela photo is captioned only as seized drugs and does not show which part of the haul it depicts.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Daily Rupashi Bangla: The village paper Rupashi Bangla carried the battalion's statement word for word and reported the goods as seized unclaimed.
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.
Border Guard Bangladesh's 15 BGB recovered 13 kg 500 g of Indian ganja at Chouratari in Fulbari, Kurigram, on the night of 5 November 2026, with no one arrested. BGB valued the abandoned consignment at about Tk 47,250 and said it was working to identify the smugglers.
