(June 14, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) In a pre-dawn operation, Intelligence officials in Chennai foiled a bid to smuggle large quantity of batteries, beedi bundles and clothes, meant for the LTTE, and arrested a Lankan national at Devipattinam here today.
An official of the state ‘Q’ branch police reportedly said that a special team of the wing, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mahendran, cordoned off the Devipattinam seashore, where Lankan national Vijay was loading the consignment fibreglass boat with the help of a group of local fishermen, Sri Lankan nationals and LTTE sympathisers.
The consignment contained 18,000 batteries, six beedi bundles and 24 bundles of finished and unfinished clothes.
On spotting the police team, except Vijay, all others managed to dive into the sea and escape under the cover of darkness.
The intelligence team arrested Vijay and seized the consignment and the hi-speed fibreglass boat.
A massive hunt is on by the intelligence officials with the coordination of local police to nab the escaped people.
Two held for selling fake gold
A duo posing as mother and son tried to sell fake gold coins and chains to a textile shopowner Sunil (28) at Sowcarpet in Chennai.
They were arrested by the police and ten kg of gold chains and gold coins seized from them.
The arrested were identified as Gowribai (65) of Maharashtra and Kishore (25) of Gujarat.
According to the police, the duo had approached Sunil on Thursday, saying that they were from Gujarat and that they wanted to sell jewels brought to Chennai by them after the Gujarat earthquake.
Sunil got suspicious and asked them to come the next day. Meanwhile, he alerted the police about the duo.
When the two went to the shop next day, the police seized the gold articles, which were fake, and took them into custody.
During investigation, it was revealed that the arrested were not mother and son as was believed.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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