Border Guard Bangladesh patrols seized 600 grams of ganja that lay abandoned beside Namochakpara Government Primary School in Shahbajpur Union of Shibganj upazila, Chapainawabganj.[1]

The patrol was from the Chakpara border outpost of the Mahananda Battalion, the 59th BGB battalion.[1][2] Officers carried out the search at about 8 pm on the night of 5 November 2026, roughly 300 yards inside Bangladesh from border pillar 183/4-S.[1] The same patrol found 100 grams of heroin with the ganja, a second substance that is not counted in the cannabis quantity here.[1] Nobody was detained, the ganja being recovered without an owner present.[1]

On the same evening the Sonamasjid outpost of the same battalion had seized 370 bottles of Eskuf, a narcotic cough syrup, from beside a house in Kamalpur village, also unclaimed.[1] Lt Col Kazi Al-Amin Apu, commander of the 59th BGB Battalion, confirmed both raids to reporters and said the force follows a zero-tolerance drug policy.[1] BGB said legal procedures for the seized items were still under way.[1][2] The battalion commander gave the figures in a press statement sent to the media at midday on 6 November.[3]

The Sonamasjid border outpost patrol that found the syrup was led by Subedar Tushar Kanti Biswas and acted on a tip inside Kamalpur village of Shahbajpur Union, beside a house, about 1 km inside Bangladesh from border main pillar 188.[2]