Narsingdi District Detective Branch officers and thana police carried out separate special operations across the district on 12 November 2026 to keep law and order stable, recover drugs and suppress crime.[1] Police said the operations arrested 36 people in all, including drug traders held with 14 kg of ganja and 50 yaba tablets as well as suspects named in case records, men with warrants outstanding and people involved in extortion.[1]
Acting on secret information, the Detective Branch moved on the paved road in front of the Al Amin Bike Service shop near Pakuria Bazar in Amdia Union, Madhabdi, and caught drug trader Abdul Karim Pagla, 62, red-handed with 12 kg of ganja.[1] Karim, a resident of the Changao area under Madhabdi police station, already faced 26 cases, 24 of them for ganja and two for yaba, and police said legal action was taken over this incident.[1] At a checkpoint on the paved road in front of the Liza Zarda Factory at Mahmudabad under Raipura police station, officers detained a man named Dulal Robi Das and, on searching him, recovered 2 kg of ganja from a box used for shoe polish.[1] In the same sweep police arrested Asif alias Rabbi, 23, of the Purandiya area under Shibpur police station, with 50 yaba tablets, a methamphetamine count that is not included in the cannabis figures.[1]
Palash thana police arrested four people in their own operation, one on a GR warrant, one on a CR warrant and two under section 34 of the Police Act, and sent them before the court.[1] In a joint midday operation by the district Detective Branch and Shibpur Model Thana police, officers arrested Md Shafiqul Islam, 40, named in a Shibpur extortion case, and Hadikul Islam, a fugitive sentenced to five years by a Kushtia court.[1] District police said operations of this kind and other anti-crime activity would go on to keep law and order normal in Narsingdi, eliminate drugs and bring offenders under the law.[1]
