The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has been permitted to detain and interrogate the custodian in charge of the evidence room of the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court after a stock of heroin worth Rs. 240 million was reported missing.
The Colombo Chief Magistrate today allowed the CID to detain and interrogate the custodian in charge of the evidence room of the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court.
The custodian was arrested in connection with the disappearance of 12 kilos of heroin worth Rs.240 million, from the evidence room.
The stock of heroin was kept at the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court’s evidence room concerning a case being deliberated at the Colombo High Court.
It was found that an individual posing as a state intelligence service official had taken the stock of heroin stating that it was to be produced before the Government Analysts Department.
It is reported that an individual identifying himself as ‘Tharindu Yoshitha’ from the state intelligence service had taken the heroin. (Newswire)