Belpukur police arrested Abdul Matin, 40, with 20 grams of ganja in Bara Dhadas village, Rajshahi. After he admitted the offence, a court sentenced him to six months' imprisonment and fined him 1,000 Taka.
🇧🇩 Bara Dhadas village, Belpukur, Rajshahi · Bangladesh
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Arrested
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Cannabis
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BDT 1,000
Belpukur police arrested Abdul Matin, 40, in Bara Dhadas village in Rajshahi
city for possessing cannabis.[1] Matin, the son of Abdul Majid Ali, was held
with 20 grams of ganja, the local term for cannabis.[1] After he admitted the
offence in court, he was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined 1,000
Taka.[1]
The arrest was part of 24-hour drives by Damkura, Belpukur and Katakhali station
police.[1] Police said five people were arrested in those drives for drug
possession and use and received jail terms and fines after admitting guilt in
court.[1] In Damkura, officers arrested 27-year-old Belal Hossain at his home
with yaba and drug-use equipment, and a court gave him one year’s rigorous
imprisonment and a 5,000-Taka fine.[1] In Katakhali, officers arrested Tamim,
23, Hasibul Islam, 28, and Mehedi Hasan Antar, 20, while using drugs, and each
received 20 days’ rigorous imprisonment and a 500-Taka fine.[1]
Separately, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police stations and detectives arrested 18
other people, including two warrant accused, nine drug-case accused and seven
others.[1] City police spokesperson Deputy Police Commissioner (Sadar) Md.
Gaziur Rahman confirmed the results on Monday morning.[1]
The arrests occurred in the 24 hours before the Monday morning police briefing, so 2 November 2026 is the publication and briefing date used as the incident date.
The wider sweep involved five sentenced people and 18 other arrested people, but the figures above cover only the cannabis component of one man, 20 grams, his sentence and his fine.
The nine drug-case accused among the 18 other arrested people have unspecified substances and are not counted as cannabis arrests.
Prison terms and fines for the yaba and drug-use cases are left out of the figures because they do not involve cannabis.
Only one accessible outlet account of this event was found, with no second independent report confirming the details.
The source page carries a photo captioned with the headline, but the caption and article text do not establish that it shows this seizure or arrest, so no media entry is added.
Officers detained 34-year-old Mamun Hawlader with 50 grams of cannabis in Dhamura, Uzirpur on the morning of 3 November 2026. A mobile court held at the scene and conducted by the Upazila Nirbahi Officer sentenced him to one month of imprisonment without labour and fined him 100 taka.
Arrested 1Cannabis 50 gPrison 1 month without labourFine BDT 100
Department of Narcotics Control officers detained four men in Narail Sadar on 2 November 2026, seizing 20 grams of ganja from one of them alongside yaba tablets from the others. A mobile court gave the four prison terms of one to four months with fines and sent them to district jail.
Department of Narcotics Control officers detained two men with 10 grams of ganja in Tengri Madhyapara, Madhupur on 2 November 2026. A mobile court sentenced each to six months of simple imprisonment and a 100-taka fine, while two others were held separately with yaba and heroin.
Babu Sardar, 27, was caught consuming ganja in Madhyarajapur village, Raninagar, and a mobile court sentenced him to 15 days of simple imprisonment on 2 November 2026. Upazila executive officer Rakibul Hasan passed the sentence during a tip-off raid attended by narcotics-control and local administration officials.