44 held in Paikgacha October drug raids with 511 g of ganja seized
Police in Paikgacha, Khulna, arrested 44 suspected drug dealers in October 2026 raids and recovered 511 grams of ganja along with yaba tablets, country liquor and drug-laced syrup. Officers filed 10 regular, 18 summary-trial and seven non-FIR narcotics cases, and the station chief said sentences and fines followed in those cases.
Police in Paikgacha upazila, Khulna district, say they arrested 44 suspected
drug dealers during raids across the upazila in October 2026.[1]
Officers seized511 grams of ganja from the people arrested.[1]The same
operations also recovered 352 yaba tablets, two and a half litres of Bangla
cholai liquor and four pieces of drug-laced syrup.[1]Police filed 10 regular
narcotics cases, 18 summary-trial cases and seven non-FIRprosecution cases
under the Narcotics Control Act for the month.[1]
Twenty of those arrested were sent to court in regular cases.[1]In the 18
summary-trial cases, a summary trial being a fast-track hearing before a
magistrate, officers detained another 24 people with drugs, produced them before
the court, and the accused received sentences of various terms.[1]Another 20
people were sent to court in the seven non-FIR prosecution cases and were
sentenced and fined.[1]
Officer-in-Charge Sheikh Abdul Auwal Kabir confirmed the figures.[1]He said
the sweeps followed directions from Khulna Range Deputy Inspector General Md
Rezaul Karim and district Superintendent of Police Sarkar Omar Faruk.[1]Kabir
said the drive against drugs, theft, extortion, gambling and other crime would
continue.[1]
Subornovumi reported the same October figures for Paikgacha: 44 people arrested
and 511 grams of ganja recovered with yaba, liquor and syrup.[2]
The second report restates that 20 of those arrested were sent to court in
regular cases and 24 were arrested in the 18 summary-trial cases.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Neither report names the people arrested or says where in the upazila each raid took place.
No fines or prison terms are given for the summary-trial and non-FIR cases, only that the accused were sentenced and fined.
The reports do not make clear whether the 44 arrests include the 24 held in summary-trial cases and the 20 prosecuted without an FIR, or are additional to them.
No plants were reported destroyed and no value was put on the seized ganja.
Ajker Darpon describes four pieces of drug-laced syrup while Subornovumi says four bottles; this does not affect the cannabis figures.
The articles also summarise separate October kidnapping, theft, extortion and gambling cases in Paikgacha, which are left out of this report.
Only the publication date is known for the monthly tally; 31 October 2026 stands in for the end of the October operation period.
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.
