BGB reports 240 g of ganja among Tk 82 crore seized on Satkhira border; 152 held
Bangladesh's Border Guard Bangladesh said drives on the Satkhira border from 1 September to November 2026 netted drugs and smuggled goods worth over Tk 82.35 crore, including 240 grams of ganja and 3.13 kg of heroin, and that 152 people were arrested. The 17th battalion's commander gave the figures at a press briefing on 10 November.
🇧🇩 Nil Dumur, Satkhira, Jashore region border area, Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said it seized drugs and smuggled
goods worth more than Tk 82.35 crore in drives along the border from 1 September
to November 2026.[1][2]The force said it arrested 152 people in those cases.[1][2]
Among the drugs, officers seized 240 grams of ganja, the Bengali term for
cannabis, alongside 3.13 kg of heroin, 4,762 bottles of liquor, 64,031 yaba
tablets and 31,016 bottles of Phensidyl cough syrup.[1][2]
The battalion said the Jashore region’s roughly 600 km of border is covered by
113 Border Observation Posts under two sectors and seven units, with 452 patrols
a day.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The briefing gives one value for all goods seized, so it is not clear how much of the Tk 82.35 crore was drugs and how much smuggled goods, or what the 240 grams of ganja were worth.
No breakdown of the 152 arrests by offence, date or location is given, so how many relate to cannabis is unknown.
The briefing gives no individual incident dates or seizure sites, and does not say whether any of those arrested were charged or prosecuted.
The source does not say whether the 240 grams of ganja was seized in one case or accumulated over the reporting period.
Local youths in Ramanandapur caught two alleged buyers, leading police to recover about 2 kg of cannabis and cannabis plants from a seller's house. The alleged seller, Ghori Babul, fled and police said a case was under process.
Border Guard Bangladesh patrols recovered 600 grams of ganja and 100 grams of heroin found abandoned beside Namochakpara Government Primary School in Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, on the night of 5 November. Nobody was arrested, and the force said legal procedures for the seized drugs were under way.
Border Guard Bangladesh's 15 BGB recovered 13 kg 500 g of Indian ganja at Chouratari in Fulbari, Kurigram, on the night of 5 November 2026, with no one arrested. BGB valued the abandoned consignment at about Tk 47,250 and said it was working to identify the smugglers.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized Indian liquor and ganja in special anti-drug operations on the Parshuram and Chhagalnaiya border in Feni on 5 November 2026. The force put the combined seizure value at Tk 197,800, while the separate ganja quantity and any detentions were not reported.
