544 arrested as Dhaka raids seize 540 g of ganja in 24 hours
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 544 people and filed 62 cases during 24 hours of raids across the capital on 5 November 2026. Police seized 540 grammes of ganja alongside yaba, heroin and pethidine injections, with further legal action said to be under way.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police, the force for the capital, arrested 544 people during
a 24-hour drive across Dhaka.[1]Police filed 62 cases during the same 24-hour
period.[1]
During the drive police seized540 grammes of ganja, the local term for
cannabis, along with 6,258 yaba pills, 4.2 grammes of heroin in four packets, 37
pethidine injections and two knives and two cutters.[1]
Police said further legal action against those arrested was under way.[1]
The drive is one of DMP’s regular 24-hour operations in the capital, which it
announces day by day.[1]
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The page image published with the DMP report on 544 arrests in 24 hours; it is captioned only with the headline and carries no credit.Photo details
The 544 arrests and 62 cases cover the whole 24-hour sweep across all alleged offences; how many were linked specifically to cannabis was not stated.
Yaba, heroin and pethidine figures are mentioned only to explain the mixed sweep and are excluded from cannabis figures; no combined weight is counted as cannabis.
No arrested person was named and no charges or court outcomes were reported beyond further legal action said to be under way.
The opened accounts follow the same DMP press release, so they repeat its wording and are not fully independent; other outlets carrying the same figures could not be opened to confirm quotation-level wording.
The page image is captioned only with the headline and carries no credit establishing that it shows these seizures, so it is linked rather than used as a cover.
One Bengali account (Energy Tribune) reports an extra 15 arrests by the SRU and Detective Branch rather than 13; this report uses the 13 given in the DMP press release wording carried by the opened accounts.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Press: Of those arrested, 41 were held in Ramna division, 42 in Lalbagh, 95 in Wari, 44 in Motijheel, 59 in Tejgaon, 144 in Mirpur, 55 in Gulshan and 49 in Uttara, while 13 more were arrested by the SRU-2 special unit and the Detective Branch.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Report: The arrests and seizures were made in raids in different police-station areas of the capital on Thursday 5 November.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Report: The results were announced on Friday 6 November in a press release from Deputy Commissioner Md Akhtar Hossain of DMP's media and public relations division.
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.
