Sunday 29 July 2012

4 TN fishermen among 6 held for smuggling ganja to Lanka

Rameswaram (TN), Six fishermen, including four from Tamil Nadu, were arrested today by Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly smuggling ganja and pan masala to the island nation, police said here. The four fishermen from Susaipappapatinnam near here had taken the contraband in a country boat and were offloading it along with two Lankan nationals at Kallupatti, a coastal village in Sri Lanka, when they were arrested early this morning.

The arrested had been remanded to judicial custody by a court and lodged in Neer Kozhumbu jail, officials said quoting information received by them from Sri Lankan authorities.

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