Officers at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake detained two women for allegedly trying to send a Sri Lankan teenage boy to London using forged documents.
One woman, a resident of Mullaitivu, attempted to take the 17-year-old boy to London with her on a SriLankan Airlines flight on Friday (26). Suspicious documents were flagged by ground staff, leading to the involvement of the Border Management Unit of the Immigration and Emigration Department. Technical checks confirmed the documents were forged.
Subsequent interrogation revealed the boy's actual mother was at the airport. The officers then apprehended the boy's biological mother, and all three are now in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at the airport for further investigation.
