One held with 36 kg of ganja beside a pond in Madhabpur, Habiganj
SRB-9, a police battalion, arrested 26-year-old Ujjal Mia with 36 kg of ganja at a pond bank in Krishnapur village, Madhabpur, Habiganj, at 2:05 a.m. on 8 November 2026. A second man dropped one of the two plastic sacks and escaped; police filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act and handed the man and the ganja to Madhabpur police station.
🇧🇩 Krishnapur village, Bahra Union, Madhabpur Upazila, Habiganj · Bangladesh
The operation took place at 2:05 a.m. on Sunday 8 November at a pond bank in
Krishnapur village of Bahra Union, Madhabpur Upazila, Habiganj.[1][2]Special
Response Battalion (SRB)-9, a police battalion, arrested 26-year-old Ujjal Mia
with 36 kg of ganja in Madhabpur, Habiganj.[1][2][3]The SRB-9 team from the
Shayestaganj camp carried out the raid after receiving confidential information,
and when two men tried to flee with two plastic sacks, one was detained.[1]One of the men carrying plastic sacks was detained and the other dropped a sack
and escaped.[1]
Officers searched both sacks and recovered 36 kg of ganja.[1][2]The arrested man
is the son of Mahdar Ali of Krishnapur village, and in initial questioning he
said he and the escaped accomplice had collected the ganja from a border area of
Habiganj and kept it to sell.[1]The Sylhetview24 account names him as Md
Ujjal Mia, 26, and calls him a drug trader.[4]
SRB-9 additional superintendent of police and media officer K M Shahidul Islam
Sohag said a case was being filed against the arrested man and the fugitive
under the Narcotics Control Act, after which the man and the ganja were handed
to Madhabpur police station, and that the campaign against drugs would continue.[1]Dhaka Today’s correspondent for Madhabpur, Habiganj, reported the arrest,
and the outlet published it on 8 November 2026.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The incident falls in the night from Saturday 7 November to Sunday 8 November; both accounts date the raid to Sunday 8 November.
No street value for the 36 kg of ganja was published.
The 36 kg figure is SRB-9's own count; no independent weighing was reported.
No charge sheet, plea or court outcome was reported beyond the filing of a case under the Narcotics Control Act.
The escaped accomplice was not named and no arrest of him was reported.
The two accounts transliterate the father's name differently (Mahdar Ali and Mahor Ali), and differ on whether the case had already been filed when the man was handed over.
Coordinates are for Madhabpur Upazila rather than the exact pond bank in Krishnapur village.
A third outlet headline matching this event could not be opened because the page refused access, so it is not cited.
The Sylhet Voice account says a case under the Narcotics Control Act had been filed and the man and ganja already handed to Madhabpur police station, while at least one account already cited says the filing was still under way; the case-document stage differs between accounts.
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.
