The former National People’s Power (NPP) Peliyagoda Urban Councillor’s husband, who was arrested in Anuradhapura for the possession of heroin and subsequently suspended from his position as a school principal in Eppawala, has been further remanded.

He has been remanded until December 10 by the Thambuththegama Magistrate’s Court.

The individual was arrested with over a kilogram of heroin on November 5.

The individual was apprehended based on information obtained from a 30-year-old man arrested in Nallamudawa, Eppawala, by the Anuradhapura Divisional Crime Investigation Division.

During the raid, authorities recovered 1 kilogram and 185 grams of heroin belonging to the principal, which had been hidden at the back of a hotel in Eppawala.

Additionally, police also found an electronic scale used for measuring drugs and a polythene sealing machine, which had been hidden in a nearby tank by the principal.

The former NPP Peliyagoda Urban Councillor’s husband was suspended from service on November 7, by the Department of Education of the North-Central Province.

The North-Central Provincial Director of Education issued a letter to the school principal in question, stating that, based on the information provided by the Anuradhapura Divisional Criminal Investigation Division, he had committed an offence under the provisions of the Establishments Code.

Accordingly, he was suspended from service with immediate effect.

Furthermore, the principal’s son was also arrested with 25 grams of heroin.

Meanwhile, the wife of a principal arrested for the possession of heroin, Disna Niranjala, who was a member of the Peliyagoda Urban Council representing the National People’s Power, was identified as a relative of the large-scale drug trafficker and criminal known as ‘Kosgoda Sujee’.

The Anuradhapura Division Criminal Investigation Division is conducting further investigations into the incident.