Bus passenger held with 6 kg of ganja at a Thakurgaon checkpoint
Bangladesh Police's Special Response Battalion-13 (SRB-13) stopped a Nabil Paribahan bus at a checkpoint near Khochabari Bazar in Thakurgaon on the night of 9 November 2026 and found 6 kg of ganja in a passenger's bag. The battalion arrested Jilani Mia, 30, from Kishoreganj, filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act and handed him and the ganja to the local police station.
Officers of the police’s Special Response Battalion-13 (SRB-13) set up a
checkpoint on the Dinajpur–Thakurgaon highway in front of the Sonalli filling
station near Khochabari Bazar in Nargun union, Thakurgaon Sadar, on the night of
9 November 2026.[1]The operation was carried out by CPC-1 of the battalion’s
Dinajpur camp.[1]They searched a Nabil Paribahan bus.[1]In the bag of
passenger Jilani Mia, 30, they found 6 kg of ganja and arrested him.[1]Mia
was from Kalipur village in Bhairab thana of Kishoreganj district.[1]
SRB-13 released the information in a press release on 10 November.[2]The
seized ganja had an estimated market value of 120,000 taka.[3]SRB-13 filed a
case against Mia under the Narcotics Control Act.[2]The battalion handed him
and the ganja to the local police station for further legal action.[2]SRB-13
said its intelligence work and anti-drug operations would continue under the
government’s zero-tolerance policy on drugs.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Pataka 24 and Daily Joypur Barta, quoting an SRB-13 press release, date the raid to Monday 9 November 2026; the Daily Karatoa report calls it a Tuesday night raid.
The Daily Karatoa report says the bus was going from Dhaka to Panchagarh; the SRB-13 press release accounts place the checkpoint on the Dinajpur–Thakurgaon highway and do not give the bus's route.
No charge sheet, trial date or court outcome is reported after the case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
The section of the Narcotics Control Act used in the case is not named.
The 120,000 taka figure is an estimated market value; the source does not say who made the estimate.
The seized material is described as ganja, with no laboratory confirmation reported.
A separate raid the same night in Garea union, Thakurgaon Sadar, seized yaba and tapentadol tablets from a house and is a non-cannabis event left out of this report.
The Pataka 24 and Daily Joypur Barta accounts reproduce the same SRB-13 press release; no independent witness account was found.
Coordinates are for Choto Khochabari Hat in Nargun union, the bazaar near the checkpoint, not the Sonalli filling station itself.
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.
