{"id":10244,"date":"2020-12-14T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2020-12-14T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:44:07","slug":"army-troops-seize-stock-of-turmeric-and-cardamom-worth-over-rs-27-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/army-troops-seize-stock-of-turmeric-and-cardamom-worth-over-rs-27-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Army troops seize stock of turmeric and cardamom worth over Rs. 27 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army troops have arrested a suspect with 4300 kilograms of turmeric and 80 kilograms of cardamom worth over Rs. 27 million in the Pesalai area in Mannar this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The troops of the 543 Brigade attached to the 54 Division on intelligence information received have carried out the raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troops also seized a cab used to transport the consignment of turmeric and cardamom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The suspect and the stock of turmeric and cardamom were handed over to the Talaimannar Police for further investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Mannar-based 54 Division troops of the Security Force HQ-Wanni apprehended a suspect with 1560 kilos of smuggled turmeric hidden in a house at Pallimunei at Mannar on Saturday (12), the Ministry of defense said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stock of turmeric, valued at Rs. 9.3 million and the suspect were handed over to the Mannar Police for onward investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also 15 Gemunu Watch troops on the same day have apprehended two suspects along with a stock of 890 kilos of smuggled turmeric valued about Rs. 5.34 million at Kunchikulam roadblock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The suspects were nabbed while they were transporting the smuggled raw turmeric from Mannar to Kalmunai in a lorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vehicle, the smuggled turmeric and the suspects were handed over to Madhu Police for further investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army troops have arrested a suspect with 4300 kilograms of turmeric and 80&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}