465 arrested as Dhaka raids seize 200 g of cannabis in 24 hours
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 465 people and filed 51 cases during 24 hours of raids across the capital, seizing 200 grams of cannabis alongside yaba pills. Mirpur made the most arrests, and police say further legal action is under way.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 465 people and filed 51 cases during raids
across Dhaka over a 24-hour period.[1]Police filed 51 cases during the same
period, according to a DMP press release.[1]Ramna accounted for 22 arrests,
Lalbagh for 59, Wari for 43, Motijheel for 59, Tejgaon for 56, Mirpur for 149,
Gulshan for 38 and Uttara for 38, with one more by the Detective Branch.[1]The arrests were made during operations in different police-station areas of
Dhaka on Monday 9 November.[1]Police said further legal action against those
arrested was under way.[1]
During the same operations, police seized200 grams of cannabis and a
cannabis-cutting machine.[1]The sweep also yielded 669 yaba pills, an
unexploded cocktail and parts of another, and 11 mobile phones.[1]
These are the police’s own counts from a regular anti-crime sweep in which the
cannabis was recorded separately from the other drugs seized.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The 465 arrests and 51 cases cover the whole 24-hour sweep across all alleged offences; how many were linked specifically to cannabis was not stated.
Yaba pills, cocktail explosives and mobile phones are mentioned only to explain the mixed sweep and are excluded from cannabis figures; no combined weight is counted as cannabis.
No names, charges or court outcomes for those arrested were reported.
Two people were detained in separate anti-drug raids in Rajapur, Jhalakathi, with officers seizing 250 g of ganja and yaba tablets. A mobile court sentenced one man to one year and three months in prison with a 2,000-taka fine, while police filed a drug case against the second man.
Arrested 2Cannabis 250 gPrison 1 year 3 monthsFine BDT 2,000
Khulna's Special Response Battalion arrested 26-year-old Tarek Hossain at Katakhali Mor in Fakirhat with eight kilograms of ganja. Police filed a Narcotics Control Act case and sent him to jail through the Bagerhat court.
Officers arrested 58-year-old Abdus Salam Sarkar at his house in Purba Guadohuri, Dhunat, Bogura, seizing 1.5 kg of ganja. A case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act and the accused was sent to court.
Police in Dumki, Patuakhali arrested a 20-year-old youth with 20 grams of ganja during a nighttime road patrol in Lebukhali Union on 11 November 2026. A case was filed at Dumki police station under the Narcotics Control Act.
