{"id":9285,"date":"2025-10-27T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:39:00","slug":"customs-arrested-indian-national-with-2-8-kg-of-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=9285","title":{"rendered":"Customs Arrested Indian National with 2.8 kg of Heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Customs Narcotics Control Unit Arrests Indian National with 2.8 kg of Heroin Worth Rs. 84.96 Million at BIA <a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers of the Narcotics Control Unit of Sri Lanka Customs have successfully apprehended an Indian national attempting to smuggle 2,832 grams of heroin into the country. The suspect, aged 39, had arrived from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aboard SriLankan Airlines flight UL 315, which landed at 4:30 p.m. on 26.10.2025 at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon inspection, Customs officers discovered the narcotics concealed within a false bottom of the suspect\u2019s checked luggage. The seized heroin is valued at approximately Rs. 84.96 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Narcotics Control Unit of Sri Lanka Customs is conducting further investigations, and the suspect along with the confiscated narcotics will be handed over to the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) for onward legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs Narcotics Control Unit Arrests Indian National with 2.8 kg of Heroin Worth Rs. 84.96 Million at BIA Officers of the Narcotics Control Unit of Sri Lanka Customs have successfully apprehended an Indian national attempting to smuggle 2,832 grams of heroin into the country. The suspect, aged 39, had arrived from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,1908],"class_list":["post-9285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-smn24","tag-smn24media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}