PNB officers got a lead to the young man, identified as Sunderalingam Sandarkumar,while conducting follow up operations into the arrest on Saturday of two Indians who were detected at the Colombo International Airport while smuggling nearly two kilos of heroin into the island. The drugs were cleverly concealed in wafer thin packets of polythene in two identical briefcases the men had been carrying. PNB sleuths who arrested Sandarkumar in the follow-up operation also recovered 970 grams of identically packed heroin and a similar briefcase from his house at Dehiwela. A van belonging to him and an assistant were also taken into custody by the police. One of the Indians arrested on Saturday had been to Sri Lanka five times with the Indian operator.
Further investigations are on.