48 kg of ganja seized in Rajshahi building, three held
Boalia police raided a workers' room in an under-construction building in Upashahar Sector 2, Rajshahi, on 1 November 2026 and seized 48 kg of ganja. Three people, including the builder's site engineer, were detained for questioning, with police saying the consignment arrived by truck and part had already been sold.
🇧🇩 Upashahar Sector 2, Rajshahi · Bangladesh
- Arrested
- 3
- Cannabis
- 48 kg
Boalia Model Police detained three people in Rajshahi, including the
construction firm’s site engineer, after recovering 48 kg of ganja from a
workers’ room.[1] The raid took place at about 3:30 pm on Sunday, 1 November,
in a workers’ tin-shed room in a Sarkar Builders under-construction building in
Upashahar Sector 2.[1][2] Police named the detained men as 24-year-old Sohir
Islam of Bagdhani, 20-year-old Rayhan of Palpur Dharampur, and another Rayhan of
Chanduria who worked as Sarkar Builders’ site engineer.[1]
Officers said they acted on secret information and broke the lock after those
inside first refused to open the door for a search.[1] Inside, officers found
12 packets holding a total of 48 kg of ganja in two sacks.[1] Police said the
consignment had arrived by truck in three sacks, with one sack already sold and
the remaining two intended to be moved elsewhere.[1]
The three were taken to Boalia Model Police Station for questioning, with police
saying further legal steps would follow after investigation and interrogation.[1] Police said the site engineer was among the three and had been called from
his home.[1] The site engineer was handcuffed while being taken to the
station, but police gave no detailed explanation of his suspected link to the
consignment.[1] Attempts to reach Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Additional
Commissioner Gaziur Rahman by phone for comment were unsuccessful.[1]
Police filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act at Boalia police station against the two arrested men and the absconders.[2] The two arrested men were sent to jail through the court on Monday morning, while operations to arrest the absconders continue.[2] Officers also seized two mobile phones used for drug sales, and Biplab Ali with two to three other suspects fled on seeing the police.[2] The second account names the two arrested men as 27-year-old Sajib of Bagdhani and 20-year-old Rayhan of Palpur Dharampur and places the raid at Holding No. 49 in Sector-2.[3]
Sources
- রাজশাহীতে নির্মাণাধীন ভবনে ৪৮ কেজি গাঁজা উদ্ধার, আটক ৩. Amader Shomoy, 1 November 2026. In Bangla.
- নগরীর উপশহরে বিপুল পরিমান গাঁজাসহ গ্রেপ্তার ২. Rajshahir Somoy, 2 November 2026. In Bangla.
- নগরীতে ৪৮ কেজি গাঁজাসহ দুই মাদক ব্যবসায়ী গ্রেপ্তার. Sonar Desh, 2 November 2026. In Bangla.
Open questions the AI reported
- Only the Amader Shomoy account of this event could be opened; no second outlet or agency statement was found.
- The detentions are reported as detention and questioning, and whether formal arrests, charges or a court outcome followed is not reported.
- The consignment's origin, the buyers of the already-sold sack and its intended destination were not established.
- The reason the site engineer was suspected of links to the consignment is unexplained in the source.
- The 48 kg figure is the police count from 12 packets in two sacks, with no independent weighing reported.
- The page's lead photograph carries no descriptive caption, so whether it shows this seizure could not be independently established.
- The new accounts report two arrests plus absconders while the existing report records three detentions including a site engineer, and the arrest figure is therefore left out here.
- The Bagdhani man is reported as 24-year-old Sohir Islam in the earlier account and 27-year-old Sajib son of Abdur Razzaq in the new accounts, and whether this is variant reporting of one person is unresolved.
- The new accounts place the raid at Holding No. 49 plot's chapra tin-shed and mention two seized mobiles, differing in detail from the under-construction-building description.
- The fate of the site engineer detained earlier is not mentioned in the new accounts.
- The whereabouts and identities of Biplab Ali and the two to three other absconders, and any later court outcome for the jailed men, are not yet reported.
