BGB seizes cannabis and 98 syrup bottles in Fulbari border raids
Border Guard Bangladesh's 15 BGB seized Indian Iscap syrup and cannabis plus a transport motorcycle in two night operations on the Fulbari border on 1 November 2026. The cannabis weight was not published, so only the 98 syrup bottles are quantified and the Tk 158,800 combined drug value is not counted as a cannabis value.
🇧🇩 Anantpur and Balarhat border, Fulbari, Kurigram · Bangladesh
Border Guard Bangladesh’s Lalmonirhat Battalion (15 BGB) carried out special
anti-drug and anti-smuggling operations on the Fulbari border in Kurigram,
recovering Indian Iscap syrup and cannabis.[1][2]The battalion conducted the two
separate operations on the night of Sunday, 1 November, at separate places on
the Anantpur and Balarhat border in Fulbari upazila.[1][2]Members also seized a
motorcycle allegedly used to transport the drugs alongside the recovered
substances.[1][2]
In a follow-up action at around 7:30 pm on Sunday, its Anantpur border-outpost
team searched the Hajitari area and seized 98 bottles of Indian Iscap syrup.[1]BGB estimated the market value of the drugs recovered in the two operations
at Tk 158,800, a combined amount covering both the syrup and the cannabis.[1][2]
The authority said such operations to protect the border and eliminate drugs
would continue.[1]
The Balarhat outpost team seized 5 kg600 g of ganja together with one motorcycle.[2]The carriers of the 98 syrup bottles fled when chased by BGB.[2]BGB said work to identify the smugglers and take legal action against them was under way.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The opened capture confirms ganja was recovered but publishes no weight or sack count for the cannabis, so no kg_seized is recorded.
The Tk 158,800 market value covers Iscap syrup and cannabis together and cannot be separated, so it is not recorded as a cannabis-only value.
The Iscap/Eskuf syrup bottles and the motorcycle are non-cannabis items and are excluded from cannabis figures.
No arrest, charge or court outcome is named in the opened capture.
Only one source could be opened; the BSS district-news page for the same 98-bottle seizure returned 403 and was not used, and search-result wording suggesting 5.6 kg of ganja cannot be cited.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Somoyer Konthosor: BGB said the surveillance was based on intelligence information as part of its ongoing special campaign called ‘Operation Narcotics Strike’ against drugs and smuggling in the border area.
Special Response Battalion officers raided Rasulpur in Bijoynagar, Brahmanbaria, after a tip about drug trading. They recovered 300 kg of ganja from a roadside crop field after the suspects fled, with no arrests reported.
Local youths in Ramanandapur caught two alleged buyers, leading police to recover about 2 kg of cannabis and cannabis plants from a seller's house. The alleged seller, Ghori Babul, fled and police said a case was under process.
Bangladesh's Border Guard Bangladesh said drives on the Satkhira border from 1 September to November 2026 netted drugs and smuggled goods worth over Tk 82.35 crore, including 240 grams of ganja and 3.13 kg of heroin, and that 152 people were arrested. The 17th battalion's commander gave the figures at a press briefing on 10 November.
Border Guard Bangladesh patrols recovered 600 grams of ganja and 100 grams of heroin found abandoned beside Namochakpara Government Primary School in Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, on the night of 5 November. Nobody was arrested, and the force said legal procedures for the seized drugs were under way.
