Narcotics transport racket uncovered
BY Premalal Wijeratne-September 15, 2014
Police Special Task Force (STF) yesterday busted a racket in which ganja (cannabis) and heroin, originating from Kerala, was transported between Jaffna and Colombo.
A high ranking STF officer said the officers had taken into custody a bus driver of a private super luxury bus, along with the ganja from Kerala, valued at Rs. 2 million. The arrest was made at Mankulam, Jaffna, in the early hours of yesterday.
The bus was heading for Colombo from Jaffna when the detection was made. The ganja was concealed inside cashew and 'murukku' packets, they said. They were to be handed over to an individual who was staying in a lodge in Colombo, according to instructions given to the driver, investigations have revealed.
Meanwhile, the STF had also discovered a house in Manipay, Jaffna that has been used to packet heroin.
Inspector B.S.H. Peiris and a team of officers, who conducted a raid on the house, also took into custody a suspect, and heroin valued nearly Rs 30,000, an STF officer disclosed.
During interrogation, the man said that heroin purchased from large scale dealers in Colombo was transported by public transport to Jaffna and the racket had been going on for some time.
Postal Union critiques Govt.
September 15, 2014
The Lanka Postal Services Union (LPSU) criticized the government for spending funds on the Asia-Pacific Postal Union (APPU) Executive Council Meeting (ECM) in Colombo when it has failed to allocate funds to provide minimum facilities to ensure an effective postal service.
Chairman of the LPSU, Jayantha Wijesinghe said the Cabinet has allocated Rs 20 million to hold the event at a time when the postal service was incurring huge losses.
"The postal department has failed to provide bicycles to postmen and it only pays a pittance as rent for sub post offices. But, they have money to spend millions on tamashas," he charged.
The ECM will be held between 15 and 19 September with nearly 150 foreign representatives and a group of representatives including the Director General of the Universal Postal Union being invited.
BY Premalal Wijeratne-September 15, 2014 Police Special Task Force (STF) yesterday busted a racket in which ganja (cannabis) and heroin, originating from Kerala, was transported between Jaffna and Colombo.
A high ranking STF officer said the officers had taken into custody a bus driver of a private super luxury bus, along with the ganja from Kerala, valued at Rs. 2 million. The arrest was made at Mankulam, Jaffna, in the early hours of yesterday.
The bus was heading for Colombo from Jaffna when the detection was made. The ganja was concealed inside cashew and 'murukku' packets, they said. They were to be handed over to an individual who was staying in a lodge in Colombo, according to instructions given to the driver, investigations have revealed.
Meanwhile, the STF had also discovered a house in Manipay, Jaffna that has been used to packet heroin.
Inspector B.S.H. Peiris and a team of officers, who conducted a raid on the house, also took into custody a suspect, and heroin valued nearly Rs 30,000, an STF officer disclosed.
During interrogation, the man said that heroin purchased from large scale dealers in Colombo was transported by public transport to Jaffna and the racket had been going on for some time.
Postal Union critiques Govt.
September 15, 2014The Lanka Postal Services Union (LPSU) criticized the government for spending funds on the Asia-Pacific Postal Union (APPU) Executive Council Meeting (ECM) in Colombo when it has failed to allocate funds to provide minimum facilities to ensure an effective postal service.
Chairman of the LPSU, Jayantha Wijesinghe said the Cabinet has allocated Rs 20 million to hold the event at a time when the postal service was incurring huge losses.
"The postal department has failed to provide bicycles to postmen and it only pays a pittance as rent for sub post offices. But, they have money to spend millions on tamashas," he charged.
The ECM will be held between 15 and 19 September with nearly 150 foreign representatives and a group of representatives including the Director General of the Universal Postal Union being invited.
