3 Indians arrested with 50 kg of kush at Colombo airport
Police arrested three Indian nationals, including two women teachers from Mumbai, at Bandaranaike International Airport after they arrived from Bangkok with 50 kg of Kush cannabis. Police valued the haul at LKR 500 million and called it the largest drug haul caught at the airport.
🇱🇰 Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Katunayake · Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan police arrested three Indian nationals for allegedly possessing 50 kg
of cannabis at Colombo international airport, as officials described the case on
Tuesday.[1]The suspects included two women, and police said the group had
arrived at Bandaranaike International Airport on a SriLankan Airways flight from
Bangkok.[1]Police identified the two women suspects as Mumbai residents aged
between 25 and 27 who worked as teachers.[1]
Police said the three suspects had attempted to flee through the green channel
when officers arrested them at the airport.[1]Officers found them carrying 50
kg of Kush cannabis when they were stopped.[1]Police valued that 50 kg at LKR
500 million, a figure also reported as over Rs 14.5 crore.[1]
The police narcotics bureau said the 50 kg haul was the largest drug haul ever
caught at the airport.[1]Officials separately described the same haul as the
largest narcotics haul at Colombo international airport.[1]
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The account gives no separate arrest date beyond officials speaking on Tuesday, so 6 January 2026 is inferred from the 7 January 2026 publication date.
No charges, custody decision or later court outcome were given.
Only one opened source could be used after searches found no second accessible account of the same arrests.
The report does not name the third suspect, give the flight number, or break down how the 50 kg was divided among the three.
Both this case and the April 2026 monks case were each described as the largest haul at the airport; the record figure reported for the April case is 110 kg against 50 kg here.
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.
