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Smuggled goods worth Tk 21 lakh seized at Jashore border

Saturday, 7 November 2026, 3:11

Smuggled goods worth Tk 21 lakh seized at Jashore border

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized a huge quantity of smuggled goods worth Tk 21,74,350 during an operation at the Jashore border. On Friday (November 6), a patrol team of Benapol ICP under Jashore Battalion (49 BGB) conducted the anti-smuggling drive in the border area.

Among the seized items are 78 Indian sarees, 38 blankets, 8 bedsheets, 1 three-piece, 4.5 kg cumin, 27 packets of fuchka, 13.5 kg raisins, 2 kg cashews, 1,139 chocolates, 21 food items, 1,336 cosmetics, and 120 mobile phone displays.

Lieutenant Colonel Golam Mohammad Saiful Alam Khan, captain of Jashore Battalion (49 BGB), stated that BGB's intelligence activities and operations are ongoing in the border area according to a special plan to apprehend traffickers along with drugs and smuggled goods.

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