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A 32-year-old Indian nationalist has been arrested astatine the Bandaranaike International Airport successful Sri Lanka for carrying implicit 2 kilograms of heroin, a media study said connected Monday (October 27, 2025).
The Narcotics Control Division recovered 2.8 kilograms of heroin from the Indian nationalist during an inspection aft his accomplishment from Kuala Lumpur connected Sunday.
The estimated worthy is said to beryllium astir 34 cardinal Sri Lankan rupees (approx INR 9.9 million), arsenic per quality portal Ada Derana.
Further probe revealed that the Indian national, who has not been named, had planned to manus implicit the banal of heroin to a section cause trader successful Bambalapitiya, a coastal neighbourhood of Colombo.
The suspect, on with the contraband, was aboriginal handed implicit to the Airport Police Narcotics Bureau and volition beryllium produced earlier the Negombo Magistrate’s Court aboriginal connected Monday.
