On the night of 16 June 2026, a team from RAB-13 stopped a pickup at a checkpoint on the Darapara culvert, on the road from Bhulli Bazar toward Farabari in Madarganj village, ward 3 of Auliapur union, under Bhulli police station in Thakurgaon district.[1] The team belonged to Crime Prevention Company-1 at the Dinajpur camp of the Rapid Action Battalion, which the note said was running regular operations against drugs in its Rangpur area.[1] Officers arrested 45-year-old Khorshed, of Ramchandrapur Bhollak in Brahmanpara, Cumilla, and 40-year-old Md Siraj Mia, of Ramchandragarh in Gouripur, Mymensingh.[1]
The search at 8.45 p.m. recovered 64 kilograms of cannabis, the pickup and 55,000 taka in cash.[1] RAB described the two as professional drug traders who collected drugs from districts across Rangpur Division under cover of driving the pickup and supplied them elsewhere in the country.[1]
A case was filed against the accused under the Narcotics Control Act, and they were handed to the local police station with the seized items.[1] The note was issued for the battalion commander by Biplab Kumar Goswami, an additional superintendent of police and senior assistant director for media, and said RAB-13’s intelligence work would continue under a zero-tolerance policy on drugs.[1]
