Indian national held at Sri Lanka airport with over 1 kg of kush
A 35-year-old Indian national was arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake on 21 April 2026 with more than a kilogram of kush cannabis. Sri Lanka Customs and Police Narcotics Bureau officers made the arrest in a joint operation, and the bureau is continuing investigations.
🇱🇰 Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake · Sri Lanka
A 35-year-old Indian national was arrested in Sri Lanka on Tuesday for carrying
narcotics weighing over one kilogramme, police said.[1]The Indian national,
who has not been identified, was arrested at the Bandaranaike International
Airport (BIA) in Katunayaka, Adaderana.lk reported.[1]
A foreign national has been arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport
(BIA) in Katunayaka with a consignment of ‘Kush’ narcotics weighing over one
kilogramme, the report said.[1]The suspect was taken into custody during a
joint operation carried out by officers of Sri Lanka Customs and the Police
Narcotics Bureau (PNB), police were quoted as saying by the report.[1]
The Police Narcotics Bureau is conducting further investigations into the
incident.[1]
The arrested individual has been identified as a 35-year-old Indian national,
according to police.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The accounts give the weight only as over one kilogramme, so 1 kg is recorded as the understood minimum and no exact weight was published.
The suspect was not named; police gave only his age as 35 and Indian nationality.
Neither account says which flight he arrived on, where the kush came from, how it was concealed or where it was bound.
No charge, court appearance or outcome was reported; the Police Narcotics Bureau inquiry was continuing.
The arrest day is given as Tuesday and both accounts were published on 21 April 2026, which was a Tuesday, so 21 April is recorded as the incident date; no separate event time was given.
The Rediff/PTI text is a reprint of the Ada Derana report it cites, so the two accounts share one origin rather than corroborating each other independently.
Galle District Crime Division officers arrested a 41-year-old Unawatuna resident in a local raid and recovered over 125 grams of Kush alongside crystal methamphetamine. Police said further investigations into the possession case were underway.
A man detained while taking part in the sit-in against the Anuradhapura Sacred City Development Plan, on a charge of obstructing police duties, has been found to have used both heroin and cannabis. Two civilians were arrested over the confrontation between police and Buddhist monks near the Ruwanweli Maha Seya stupa.
Airport Police Narcotics Bureau officers arrested a 37-year-old Indian businessman at Bandaranaike International Airport early on 7 November 2026 as he allegedly tried to smuggle kush and hashish out of Sri Lanka. They found 2.102 kg of kush in tins labelled as tamarind toffees and 5.26 kg of hashish shaped like toffees, which police valued at about Rs 231.42 million.
Police in Madiwela, Kotte, arrested a 25-year-old local resident in a night raid on 6 November 2026 and seized 558 grams of Kush, a cannabis product, along with heroin and crystal methamphetamine. The Western Province North Crime Division, which ran the raid on received information, said investigations were continuing.
