Police seize 60 kg Kerala ganja in Jaffna – VIDEO

February 22, 2016

Amid concern over growing drug addiction especially among youth in the Northern Jaffna peninsula, Sri Lanka police on Monday have seized over 60 kilograms of Kerala ganja (cannabis) while the consignment was being smuggled into the northern Jaffna peninsula.

According to Jaffna police sources, Valveddithurai police on information have carried out the pre-dawn raid as the illegal consignment was waiting to be smuggled into the peninsula after being brought via sea at the shores of Inparutti near Point Pedro.

This consignment of Kerala ganja has been brought in using fishing boats and atwenty seven year-old resident of Vadamarachchi has also been arrested on suspicion in this connection.

The number of drug addicts and sale of drugs to the under-age people are fast increasing in the war-ravaged Northern province after the end of war in May 2009.

It has been discovered that the cannabis in extensive usage, especially in Jaffna and Mannar districts are regularly brought in from Indian State of Kerala.