SRB-9, a police Special Response Battalion, arrested Vishnu Chandra Kar, 33, with 33.5 kg of ganja in Chunarughat upazila, Habiganj district.[1][2][3][4][5] The detention took place at 10:20 p.m. on Monday 9 November at a checkpost on the paved road beside the new Shayestaganj bridge in Ubahata Union.[2] The checkpost was on the old Dhaka–Sylhet highway in No. 7 Ubahata Union.[3] Rising Sylhet, a second Bengali outlet, gave the same suspect’s name and age.[6]
SRB-9 media officer and additional superintendent of police K M Shahidul Islam Sohag gave the account in a press statement.[1][2][5] He is a resident of the Pakuria area of Chunarughat upazila.[1][2][3] He was identified as the son of the late Upendra Kar of Pakuria village.[3][4][5] The team from the Shayestaganj camp of SRB-9’s CPC-3 acted on a tip and signalled a battery-run easy bike coming from Chunarughat bazaar to stop; a passenger got out, tried to flee and was caught after a chase.[1][5] Officers recovered the 33.5 kg of ganja wrapped in scotch tape from a plastic sack on the passenger seat and seized the easy bike used to carry it.[2][5]
SRB-9 said that in preliminary questioning the detained man stated he had collected the ganja from a border area and kept it to sell.[2][3] The seized consignment was described as Indian ganja, and he also told interrogators he had been trafficking drugs to different parts of the country for a long time.[3] A case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act, and the detained man, recovered ganja and seized easy bike were handed over to Chunarughat police station.[2][4][5] Chunarughat police station officer-in-charge Mohammad Saiful Islam confirmed the incident.[3]
