On the night of 13 November 2026, Teknaf Battalion of Border Guard Bangladesh set up a temporary checkpoint on Marine Drive road at Maheshkhali Para in Teknaf on a secret tip and signalled an auto-rickshaw to stop.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The temporary checkpoint was on the main road about 200 yards south of Shamima Filling Station, in the area covered by C Beach BOP, and the auto-rickshaw was stopped at about 7:10 pm.[3] Officers became suspicious of two women travelling in the auto-rickshaw and searched them and the goods they were carrying.[1][4][5] Inside a plastic basket they were carrying, officers found 6 kg of ganja wrapped in polythene and seized it.[1][2][7][8][3][4][5][6]

BGB detained the two women at the checkpoint.[1][2][7] The detained women are Chenowara Begum, 50, and Dilara Begum, 40, residents of Habilpara in Teknaf.[9][7][8][3][4][5][6] BGB also seized a button mobile phone from them at the checkpoint.[9][3]

BGB said the two women, the recovered drug and the other seized items were being handed over to Teknaf Model Police Station for further legal action.[9][7][8][3][4][5][6] The same BGB battalion reported a separate operation at about 2 am on 14 November in the Jinna Khal area of the Naf River, in which a sack was searched and 210,000 yaba tablets were recovered and one man was arrested, a non-cannabis component that is not counted in the cannabis figures.[1]