Two held with 14 kg of ganja on a passenger bus in Noakhali's Sonaimuri
Bangladesh's Department of Narcotics Control and SRB-11 arrested two men on a Sylhet-to-Noakhali passenger bus in Sonaimuri and seized 14 kilograms of ganja. A case under the Narcotics Control Act was filed at Sonaimuri police station against both.
🇧🇩 Bhanuai, Sonaimuri, Noakhali · Bangladesh
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Agencies
🇧🇩Bangladesh, Special Response Battalion-11 (SRB-11)
Officers of the Department of Narcotics Control and SRB-11 searched a Sagarika
passenger bus bound from Sylhet to Noakhali at Bhanuai, in Noakhali’s Sonaimuri
upazila, on the evening of 8 November 2026.[1][2][3][4]The arrested were Alamgir
Hossain, 35, son of Md Dulal, and Md Jibon, 22, son of Harun, both of ward 7 of
Bajra union in Sonaimuri upazila.[5][4]
Officers seized14 kilograms of ganja from inside the bus and arrested the two
men.[1][2][3][4]The Department of Narcotics Control said the two had brought the ganja
from Brahmanbaria.[1][2][4]The operation followed a tip-off and was carried out by
the narcotics department’s Noakhali district office together with SRB-11, the
Special Response Battalion.[1]
Noakhali Media reported that the two were proceeded against under sections
19(b)/41 of the table in section 36(1) of the Narcotics Control Act 2018, with a
narcotics department sub-inspector filing the case at Sonaimuri police station.[5][3]Subrata Sarkar Shuvo, deputy director of the narcotics department’s
Noakhali district office, said a case had been filed against both men under the
Narcotics Control Act.[1][3]
Officers also seized a button mobile phone used to carry the drug, the report said.[2]
The operation followed a tip-off and ran from about 7:30 pm to about 8:30 pm beside the Darur Rashad Islamia madrasa in Bhanuai, where officers stopped the bus on the Cumilla-Noakhali regional highway, a detail earlier accounts left out.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Both accounts trace to the same Department of Narcotics Control district office, so they are not fully independent.
No court hearing, custody decision or plea was reported; the case was at the charge-filing stage.
Bangladesh Pratidin says the men brought the ganja from Brahmanbaria while describing the bus as running from Sylhet to Noakhali, and Noakhali Media also has the bus coming from Sylhet.
The narcotics department gave no value estimate for the 14 kilograms.
Noakhali Media gives the bus registration number and a raid window of about 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm beside a madrasa; the submitted report gives neither.
Channel 24 published a headline about two arrests in a bus operation in Noakhali, but its page returned only the headline and was not used.
Talash BD, like the two accounts already cited, traces its story to the Department of Narcotics Control's Noakhali district office, so it is not independent reporting of the operation.
Talash BD gives no value estimate for the 14 kilograms and reports no court hearing, custody decision or plea.
This account names the case officer who filed the complaint as sub-inspector Habibur Rahman, while the earlier Noakhali Media report cited in the report gives no officer name.
Durniti Talash News TV, like the other accounts, traces its story to the Department of Narcotics Control's Noakhali district office, so it is not independent reporting of the operation.
The article gives no value estimate for the 14 kilograms and reports no court hearing, custody decision or plea.
Sobar Desh gives no value estimate for the 14 kilograms and reports no case filing, court step or plea.
The page does not say where on the bus the ganja was found or how it was packed.
Left out arrested, as no supporting quotation was given.
Left out charged, as no supporting quotation was given.
Left out kg seized, as no supporting quotation was given.
Two people were detained in separate anti-drug raids in Rajapur, Jhalakathi, with officers seizing 250 g of ganja and yaba tablets. A mobile court sentenced one man to one year and three months in prison with a 2,000-taka fine, while police filed a drug case against the second man.
Arrested 2Cannabis 250 gPrison 1 year 3 monthsFine BDT 2,000
Khulna's Special Response Battalion arrested 26-year-old Tarek Hossain at Katakhali Mor in Fakirhat with eight kilograms of ganja. Police filed a Narcotics Control Act case and sent him to jail through the Bagerhat court.
Officers arrested 58-year-old Abdus Salam Sarkar at his house in Purba Guadohuri, Dhunat, Bogura, seizing 1.5 kg of ganja. A case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act and the accused was sent to court.
Police in Dumki, Patuakhali arrested a 20-year-old youth with 20 grams of ganja during a nighttime road patrol in Lebukhali Union on 11 November 2026. A case was filed at Dumki police station under the Narcotics Control Act.
