BGB seizes 13.5 kg of Indian ganja at Fulbari border
Border Guard Bangladesh's 15 BGB recovered 13 kg 500 g of Indian ganja at Chouratari in Fulbari, Kurigram, on the night of 5 November 2026, with no one arrested. BGB valued the abandoned consignment at about Tk 47,250 and said it was working to identify the smugglers.
Border Guard Bangladesh’s Lalmonirhat Battalion (15 BGB) seized13 kg500 g of
Indian ganja in a special operation at Chouratari in Fulbari upazila, Kurigram,
on the night of Thursday, 5 November 2026.[1][2]The operation began at 8:10 pm,
when a patrol from the Balarhat border outpost set up a sudden checkpoint on
intelligence information under the battalion’s ongoing “Operation Narcotics
Strike”.[1][3]No one was arrested: Probashir Diganta reported the cannabis was
found abandoned, and none of the accounts names a detainee.[4]
BGB valued the seized cannabis at about Tk 47,250.[3][2]BGB said it was
collecting information to identify the smugglers behind the consignment and that
legal action against them was under way.[1]The facts were announced in a
press release from 15 BGB on Friday, 6 November.[3]
Lieutenant Colonel Mehedi Imam, commander of 15 BGB, said the force would firmly resist smuggling, drug trafficking, illegal entry and attempts to push people across the border.[3]Mehedi Imam also said intelligence surveillance and patrols had been strengthened in sensitive border areas and that operations against smuggling and drugs would continue.[3]
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The reports give no figure for the number of packets or sacks the cannabis was packed in.
BGB gave no details of how the cannabis crossed the border or who carried it, and named no suspects.
No charge, case filing or court outcome is reported; BGB only said legal action was being processed.
The coordinates are the Fulbari upazila centre rather than the exact Chouratari spot.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Somoyer Konthosor: The patrol searched the area and recovered the cannabis, which BGB said had been smuggled from India.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Somoyer Konthosor: Lieutenant Colonel Mehedi Imam, commander of 15 BGB, said surveillance and patrols had been strengthened in sensitive border areas and that operations against smuggling and drug trafficking would continue.
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.
