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Three Excise officers arrested for posing as PNB personnel and demanding bribe
The Island
|September 01, 2025
Three Excise officers have been taken into custody by the police for posing as officers of the Police Narcotics Bureau and demanding Rs. 2 million to release a person arrested with heroin.
The suspect was taken to the Chankanai Excise Office in the Northern Province and his sister was asked, over
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