Two jailed 21 days for transporting ganja in Kalapara
A mobile court in Kalapara, Patuakhali, sentenced two men to 21 days of rigorous imprisonment each and a 100-taka fine for transporting cannabis, after a late-night raid on Madrasa Road. The men were arrested with the help of a Kalapara police team and sentenced under section 42(1) of the Narcotics Control Act, 2018.
🇧🇩 Madrasa Culvert road, Kalapara municipality, Kalapara, Patuakhali · Bangladesh
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21 days rigorous imprisonment, plus 5 more days if each fine is unpaid
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Kalapara Upazila Administration, Kalapara Police Station
A mobile court in Kalapara, Patuakhali, sentenced two men to 21 days of rigorous
imprisonment each for transporting cannabis.[1]Each was also fined 100 taka,
with five more days of rigorous imprisonment if the fine went unpaid.[1]
The two men were arrested during a raid late at night in the Madrasa Road
culvert area.[1]
Executive Magistrate and Upazila Assistant Commissioner (Land) Md Yasin Sadeque
handed down the sentence under section 42(1) of the Narcotics Control Act, 2018.[1]A police team led by Sub-Inspector Hamid of Kalapara police station
assisted in the operation.[1]Yasin Sadeque said the campaign against drugs
and illegal activity would continue.[1]
The ruling was given at midday on Friday 6 November, the day after the
late-night raid, Patuakhali Times reported.[2]
The upazila administration reported the arrests and the mobile court’s rulings.[3]One of the two men was named in the account as Abubakkar, of Paschim Badurtali village in Tiakhali Union of Kalapara.[3]
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No weight or quantity of cannabis was published, so no cannabis figure can be recorded.
The submitted article says the raid took place late at night on Thursday, while Patuakhali Times says the sentence was given at midday on Friday 6 November; 6 November 2026 is used as the incident date and the raid may have fallen late on 5 November.
The headline of the submitted article says ten thousand taka, while its own text and the second account say 100 taka each for the two men (200 taka in all), which is used here.
The two accounts do not say where the men were transporting the cannabis from or to, or whether any vehicle was used.
The two men, aged 42 and 40, come from Badurtali villages in Tiakhali Union of Kalapara, according to the submitted article.
The same articles report a separate conviction for illegal sand extraction, a different event left out of this report.
Only one photo of the detention was found; it is captioned as the Kalapara case but does not show the cannabis itself.
Both accounts appear to draw on the same local reporting and give no court record or appeal information.
This account names one of the two men as Abubakkar and places him in Paschim Badurtali village of Tiakhali Union; the other accounts gave neither detail.
This account leaves the fine as 'a financial fine' without a figure, while the other reports give 100 taka each.
The article also records a separate sand-extraction fine of 10,000 taka for one man on the Tiakhali river, an offence that is not a cannabis matter and is left out of the report's figures.
DNC officers in Nandigram, Bogura, arrested three people on 11 November 2026 and recovered 200 grams of ganja and five pieces of yaba. A mobile court jailed all three for one month of simple imprisonment and fined each 100 taka, and the magistrate destroyed the drugs on the spot.
A mobile court in Anowara, Chattogram sentenced 38-year-old Babu Dey to seven days of simple imprisonment for consuming ganja on 11 November 2026. Executive Magistrate Md. Abu Jafor Majumder imposed the sentence under the Narcotics Control Act, 2018 during a morning drive in Sholkata.
DNC officers arrested 15 people using drugs at spots in Gandaria and Jurain, Dhaka, recovering 150 grams of ganja. An executive magistrate in a mobile court gave those arrested jail terms of various lengths and fines.
A mobile court in Islampur, Jamalpur, sentenced 24-year-old Sajib Mia to three months of simple imprisonment and a 100-taka fine for possessing 20 grams of ganja on 9 November 2026. Officers of the Department of Narcotics Control seized the ganja in a raid on Bepari Para in Islampur municipality, and he was sent to the district jail.