Police bust large scale foreign liquor racket

A large scale foreign liquor racket was busted following the arrest of a husband and wife last week who allegedly sold well-known brands of imported foreign liquor without a permit by using a mobile luxury van with dark tinted windows, Police Media Spokesman SSP Prishantha Jayakody told the Sunday Observer.

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15 fishermen arrested in Kandakuly

Fifteen people who allegedly used banned Laila nets to fish in Kandakuly off Kalpitiya were arrested by the police, Fisheries Ministry spokesman D.S. Narendra Rajapaksa told the Sunday Observer yesterday.

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Sunday Crime

Police torch ganja plantations, key suspects absconding

Although torrential rain in Udawalawe and Hambegamuwa during the past few months caused havoc and devastation to paddy crops incurring a colossal loss to farmers, the rain did not adversely affect the illicit ganja plantations in the forest reservations of Galamunna-Orukengala located six kilometres away from the electric fence in the Hambegamuwa area.

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