Three held with 72 kg of ganja in covered van in Madhabpur
SRB-9 arrested three men with 72 kg of ganja from a covered van at a checkpoint in Stadium Para, Madhabpur, Habiganj on Thursday night. The cannabis was packed in cartons inside the van, which was seized, and the men were handed to Madhabpur police after a Narcotics Control Act case.
🇧🇩 Stadium Para area, Madhabpur municipality, Madhabpur, Habiganj · Bangladesh
SRB-9 detained three men with 72 kg of ganja after searching a covered van in
Madhabpur, Habiganj.[1]They were detained on Thursday night in the Stadium
Para area of Madhabpur municipality on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway.[1]An SRB-9
team signalled the covered van to stop at a checkpoint on the west side of
Stadium Para, and the three men tried to flee.[1]
Officers searched the covered van and recovered 72 kg of ganja packed in three
paper cartons.[1]Officers also seized the covered van used to carry the
cannabis.[1]In initial questioning the men said they had collected the ganja
from a border area and kept it to sell.[1]
A case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act and the men were handed over to
Madhabpur police station.[1]
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District Detective Branch police arrested two men at Ujanisar Dakshinpara in Brahmanbaria Sadar, seizing 12 kg of ganja they were carrying by motorcycle. The men were identified as Arif Mia and Mehedi Hasan Shuvo, and further legal action was pending.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 534 people and filed 53 cases during 24 hours of raids across the capital on 12 November 2026, seizing 6 kg of cannabis alongside yaba pills, cocktails and 925 counterfeit banknotes. Mirpur accounted for the most arrests with 147, and police said legal proceedings against those held were under way.
Police arrested a man named Alamin with two kilograms of ganja during a morning raid at East Ilisha launch ghat in Bhola Sadar on 12 November 2026. A case was filed against him at Bhola police station under the Narcotics Control Act.
