534 arrested as Dhaka raids seize 6 kg of cannabis in 24 hours
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 534 people and filed 53 cases during 24 hours of raids across the capital on 12 November 2026, seizing 6 kg of cannabis alongside yaba pills, cocktails and 925 counterfeit banknotes. Mirpur accounted for the most arrests with 147, and police said legal proceedings against those held were under way.
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 534 people and filed 53 cases during 24 hours
of regular drives across the capital on November 12, 2026.[1]Mirpur division
accounted for the most arrests with 147, followed by Tejgaon with 91, Uttara
with 55, Lalbagh with 60, Motijheel with 52, Gulshan with 50, Wari with 48 and
Ramna with 26.[1]One person was arrested by the Special Reserve Unit and four
by the Detective Branch.[1]
Police recovered 6 kilograms of cannabis, 207 yaba pills, 10 bottles of
phensedyl, 925 counterfeit Tk 1,000 notes, seven mobile phones, three crude
bombs, three fragments of exploded crude bombs, and rescued one victim.[1]
The arrests were made during drives in different areas of the capital on
Thursday (November 12).[2]
DMP said further legal proceedings against the arrested individuals were
underway.[2]
The 534 arrests and 53 cases cover the whole 24-hour sweep across all alleged offences; how many were linked specifically to cannabis was not stated.
Yaba pills, cocktails, counterfeit banknotes and mobile phones were seized in the same sweep and are excluded from the cannabis figures; no combined weight is counted as cannabis.
No arrested person was named and no charges or court outcomes were reported beyond legal proceedings said to be under way.
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Police arrested a man named Alamin with two kilograms of ganja during a morning raid at East Ilisha launch ghat in Bhola Sadar on 12 November 2026. A case was filed against him at Bhola police station under the Narcotics Control Act.
SRB-11 officers arrested a 28-year-old man in Shimulpara Bihari Camp in Siddhirganj, Narayanganj, after finding a cannabis plant grown inside the boundary wall of his home, in front of his door. The plant was 5 ft 7 in tall and weighed 3 kg 200 g with branches and leaves; a case under the Narcotics Control Act was filed and he was sent to court.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 1of them seized 1Cannabis 3.2 kg
Kalihati police arrested 38-year-old Amanullah Mia with 6 kg of ganja on a Dhaka-bound service lane in Elenga, Tangail, at about 2:30 a.m. on the night of 11 November 2026. Police valued it at 180,000 taka, filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act and sent him to jail through the court that morning.
The Department of Narcotics Control arrested two men on the Kendua-Atharbari road in Netrokona on 12 November 2026 and said it seized 34 kg of cannabis from their CNG auto-rickshaw. The department valued the cannabis at 1,020,000 taka; accounts differ on whether a case at Kendua police station had already been filed.
