Two arrested with smuggled insecticides

Navy arrested two suspects with a stock of smuggled insecticides, during a search operation conducted in the sea areas of Karaitivu and Palliyawatta of Kalpitiya on Sunday (29).

SLNS Vijaya in the Northwestern Naval Command conducted an operation in the Karaitivu sea area by deploying Inshore Patrol Craft. Naval personnel intercepted a suspicious dinghy in the sea area and apprehended two suspects with 15 sacks of smuggled insecticides.

In another search operation carried out in the Palliyawatta sea area, an additional seven bags of smuggled insecticides, which had been left behind by racketeers, were discovered. It is suspected that the smugglers may have abandoned them in response to the ongoing operations.

The suspects held in the operation are residents of Kalpitiya, from 43 to 46 years of age. Meanwhile, the suspect along with smuggled insecticides and the dinghy were handed over to the Katunayake Customs Preventive Office for onward legal action.

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