Four held in Dhunat, including ex-volunteer league leader; 100 g ganja seized
Police in Dhunat, Bogura, arrested four men on 5 November 2026, among them a former vice-president of the upazila unit of the Swayamsebak League, the Awami League's volunteer wing. A court sent all four to jail and officers recovered 100 grams of ganja from one of them beside a grocery shop in Gazaria village.
Police in Dhunat upazila in Bogura district arrested four people, one of them a
suspect named in an arrest warrant, in several cases.[1][2]Among those held was
Shahadat Hossain, 29, a former vice-president of the Dhunat upazila unit of the
Swayamsebak League.[1]He was arrested at Dhunat bazaar.[1]
The others were Mostafizur Rahman, known as Firoz, 60, from southern Officerpara
in Dhunat; Samrat Babu, 31, from Gazaria village; and Shariful Islam, from
Tarakandi village.[1]Police said Samrat Babu was detained in front of a
grocery shop by the Herringbond road in Gazaria village, in Chikashi union of
Dhunat upazila.[1]Officers recovered 100 grams of ganja, the local word for
cannabis, wrapped in white polythene from him.[1][2]
Atiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Dhunat police station, said the four were
sent to jail through a court on Thursday after legal proceedings against them
were completed.[1]He said police raids against crime were continuing.[1]Amar Bangla 24 reported the same arrests, saying police arrested four people in
several cases in Dhunat upazila, one of them named in an arrest warrant.[3]It
also reported that Shahadat Hossain was arrested at Dhunat bazaar and that 100
grams of ganja was recovered from one of the arrested.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Neither report gives a separate date for the arrests or the seizure; 5 November 2026 is the publication date, and the reports say the men were sent to jail on Thursday, which was that same day.
The reports say the four were held in several cases and that Shahadat Hossain was named in an arrest warrant, but do not set out the case against him or say whether it concerns drugs.
No specific narcotics charge, section of the law or value for the 100 grams was reported, and the ganja was not described as laboratory-confirmed.
The reports do not say what happened after the four were sent to jail, whether charge sheets were filed or what any of them said about the ganja.
Daily Sokaler Somoy, like the two accounts already cited, reproduces the Dhunat police statement and gives no separate date for the arrests, so it does not resolve any of the report's open questions.
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.
