10 nationals have been arrested by officers of the Immigration and Emigration Department in the Adiambalam area of Katunayake.
The group was arrested while staying at a holiday resort in the Adiambalam area.
It is said that they had gone to India from Bangladesh and had since returned to the country on tourist visas in February.
The Immigration and Emigration Department stated that the Bangladeshi nationals who were arrested had overstayed their visas to stay in the country.
All of them are men between the ages of 20 and 30 and preliminary investigations have revealed that they had planned to travel from Sri Lanka to Dubai and enter European countries.