Narcotics officers caught Shariful Islam, 40, smoking ganja near Garadob Secondary School in Gangni, Meherpur, on 1 November 2026. A mobile court at the scene sentenced him to three months simple imprisonment and fined him 100 taka under the Narcotics Control Act 2018.
District narcotics control officers caught 40-year-old Shariful Islam red-handed
while he was smoking ganja near Garadob Secondary School in Gangni Upazila,
Meherpur.[1][2]The team raided the area at about 6:30pm on Sunday, 1 November,
and detained him.[1]The convicted man is the son of Diraj Uddin of Garadob
village.[1]
The operation followed a tip that a man was consuming drugs near Garadob
Secondary School.[1]Officers seized some ganja, the local term for cannabis,
as well as scissors, a gas lighter and a ganja-smoking pipe known as a kolki as
evidence of consumption.[1]Upazila executive officer and executive magistrate
Masudur Rahman then convened a mobile court at the scene, a magistrate-led court
that decides minor offences on the spot.[1]The court convicted Shariful Islam
under Section 36(5) of the Narcotics Control Act 2018 and sentenced him to three
months simple imprisonment with a fine of 100 taka.[1][2]After the verdict, the
seized drug exhibits were burned publicly.[1]
District narcotics control Assistant Director Russell Ahmed was present during
the operation.[1]The mobile court said such anti-drug operations would
continue.[1][2]
Photos and video
Lead photo accompanying the Dhaka Mail report on the youth sentenced for ganja consumption in Meherpur.Photo details
No weight was published for the seized ganja, described only as some quantity, so no cannabis weight is recorded in figures.
Only one source could be opened and no second report of this event was found in Bengali or English searches.
The incident date is taken as 1 November 2026 from the reported 6:30pm raid and same-day publication, with the mobile-court sentence at the scene on the same occasion.
Whether the lead photo on the source page shows this event could not be verified from the text capture, so its caption describes it only as the accompanying report photo.
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.
