Kalihati police station officers arrested 38-year-old Amanullah Mia with 6 kg of ganja in Kalihati, Tangail.[1] They stopped him as a suspect at about 2:30 at night on Wednesday, on the paved road of the Dhaka-bound service lane in front of the Akbar Color Print shop in Elenga municipality, on the Dhaka-Tangail highway.[1] A second account of the same stop places that hour on the night following Wednesday 11 November, so the arrest fell in the early hours of 12 November.[2] Police named him as the son of the late Abdur Rahman and the late Johura Begum, of Shimulkandi, also called Imamer Char, under Bhairab police station in Kishoreganj district.[2]
A team led by Assistant Sub-Inspector Tapan Kumar of Kalihati police station made the arrest while on a patrol duty coded Golf-71 in the station area.[1] The operation was ordered by Tangail Superintendent of Police Muhammad Shamsul Alam Sarkar, supervised by Kalihati Circle Assistant Superintendent Md. Manjurul Islam, and directed by station officer-in-charge Md. Kayum Khan Siddiqui.[1] Officers recovered 6 kg of ganja from his possession, and police estimated its market value at 180,000 taka.[1]
Officer-in-charge Md. Kayum Khan Siddiqui said a regular case under the Narcotics Control Act was filed at the station against the arrested man.[1] That morning he was sent to jail through the court.[1]
