3 Khulna University students expelled after campus ganja catch
Three Mass Communication and Journalism students caught with ganja on Khulna University campus on 30 September 2026 were expelled for one to two terms and fined by the university Board of Discipline. The students admitted sourcing the drug from a Hall Road van driver, who was later detained with a significant quantity of ganja and handed to law enforcers.
🇧🇩 Academic Building No. 4, Khulna University, Khulna · Bangladesh
Three Mass Communication and Journalism students of Khulna University faced
expulsion plus fines after being detained with drugs.[1][2]They were caught with
cannabis at about 7pm on 30 September on the second floor of under-construction
Academic Building 4 during a routine patrol by assistant student affairs
directors.[3]The university Board of Discipline reviewed the investigation
report at its 28th meeting on 27 October and made the decision.[1][2]The
decision was announced in a 28 October memo signed by Director of Student
Affairs Professor Dr Md Salahuddin.[1][2]
SM Toufiq Alam was expelled for two terms and fined Tk20,000, Mushfiq Ul Islam
was expelled for one term and fined Tk10,000, and Kazi Riyajus Salehin was
expelled for one term and fined Tk15,000.[3]Undertakings are to be taken from
the guardians of all three students.[1]The student-affairs director said the
three students were caught with ganja during the routine patrol.[1][2]They
admitted drug involvement during video-recorded questioning.[1]
The university said information indicated prior involvement and that the
students had sourced the drug from a van driver on Hall Road.[1]The van
driver was later detained with a significant quantity of ganja recovered from
him and was handed over to law enforcers.[1][2]A three-member investigation
committee examined the incident and the Board acted within a month against the
three accused students.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight was published for the ganja taken from the three students or the van driver, so no kilograms can be recorded.
The Tk20,000, Tk10,000 and Tk15,000 amounts are university disciplinary fines, not court fines, so no fine is recorded in figures.
One source spells the third student as Kazi Riazul Chholehin and the other as Kazi Riyajus Salehin; the report uses the English-source spelling for the penalty sentence.
Coordinates are for the Khulna University campus centre with locality precision; the exact second-floor room was not geocoded.
The van driver's identity, the exact quantity described only as significant, and any criminal case outcome after handover were not reported.
The same 27-28 October notice penalised about 27 other students for ragging, assault and harassment, different events left out of this cannabis report.
The RTV page gives no weight for the ganja taken from the students or the van driver, so no kilograms are added.
RTV gives no identity, charge or court outcome for the van driver beyond being brought under the law.
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.
