Man arrested with 1 kg of ganja in a CNG auto-rickshaw in South Surma, Sylhet
Police in Sylhet's South Surma area arrested a 36-year-old man carrying one kilogram of ganja in a CNG auto-rickshaw at Markaz Point on the night of 30 October 2026, and seized the vehicle. A case under the Narcotics Control Act was filed at South Surma police station and the man was sent to court.
🇧🇩 Markaz Point CNG stand, South Surma, Sylhet · Bangladesh
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Arrested
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Cannabis
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Police in Sylhet’s South Surma area arrested a man carrying one kilogram of
ganja, the Bengali term for cannabis, and took away the CNG auto-rickshaw he was
using.[1]
The police team stopped him in front of the CNG stand at Markaz Point just after
11:20 pm on 30 October.[1]The operation was run by South Surma police station
officers led by sub-inspector Md Mamunur Rashid Mamun, according to the media
cell of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP).[1]Officers found the ganja inside
the CNG auto-rickshaw and stopped the man there.[1]
Sylhet Metropolitan Police’s deputy commissioner for crime and traffic (DC-CTSB)
Md Afzal Hossain said a case under the Narcotics Control Act was filed at South
Surma police station.[1]Daily Sylhet reported that the case was registered at
the station on 31 October under section 19(a)/38 of the table in section 36(1)
of the Narcotics Control Act 2018.[2]The arrested man was sent to court.[1]
The reports give the raid but no court hearing date, plea or outcome for the accused after he was sent to court.
The ganja is described only by weight; no laboratory testing, packaging detail or street value estimate was published.
Daily Sylhet refers to separate police drives in its opening sentence but reports only this one South Surma incident, so no second operation is covered here.
The Sylhet outlets reproduce the same SMP media cell statement, so they are not independent accounts of the facts.
No source stated a number of charged people, a plant count, an area or a monetary value for this arrest.
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.
