Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized drugs worth more than Tk 37 lakh in separate operations along the Kushtia border on Sunday.

At around 12:15 pm, a special patrol team from Kushtia Battalion (47 BGB) carried out an operation in the Mirpur bus stand area.

During the drive, they searched a passenger bus of ‘Alhaj Enterprise’ travelling from Meherpur to Kushtia. They recovered 9,970 Yaba tablets, which were found abandoned. The estimated value of the tablets is Tk 29.91 lakh.

Earlier, at about 1:45 am, a BGB patrol team from Kazipur BOP conducted a raid in the Kazipur Border Para area. They recovered 20 bottles of Indian liquor, 900 dexamethasone tablets, and 600 cyproheptadine tablets, all without any identified owner. The estimated value of these items is Tk 4.80 lakh.

At around the same time, another patrol team from Pragpur BOP carried out a raid in the Gorura Mat area and seized 4,640 packets of Indian leaf bidis, valued at Tk 2.55 lakh.

In a separate operation at about 2:00 am, a patrol team from Jamalpur BOP recovered 4 kg of Indian marijuana from the Dharmadah Mat area. The estimated value of the marijuana is Tk 14,000.

The total value of all seized items is approximately Tk 37,40,200.

Kushtia Battalion Commander, Lt Col Rashed Kamal Rony, said that the battalion remains firmly committed to enforcing a ‘zero tolerance’ policy against drugs and smuggling in border areas.

He added that such operations will continue to protect young people from the harmful effects of drugs and to maintain law and order in border regions.