Thursday, November 22, 2012

Lankan caught with heroin acquitted

Chennai: A special court for NDPS cases on Tuesday freed a 26-year-old Sri Lankan national who was caught carrying more than 1.5 kg of heroin, saying his guilt could not be established by the prosecution.
According to the prosecution, the accused was caught by a customs officer at Chennai airport on January 23, 2009. After a check revealed the narcotic in a keyboard in his bag, he was arrested. The accused told officials the keyboard belonged to a man named Sudha who had asked him to give the keyboard and two photo albums to his (Sudha's) wife in Sri Lanka.
22/11/12 Times of India
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