{"id":139187,"date":"2023-12-22T14:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139187"},"modified":"2023-12-22T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T21:01:05","slug":"island-wide-operation-yukthiya-nets-over-10000-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/22\/island-wide-operation-yukthiya-nets-over-10000-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Island-wide operation \u2019Yukthiya\u2019 nets over 10,000 suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Dec 22 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A total of 10,456 suspects have been arrested as of today in the island-wide special operation &#8216;Yukthiya,&#8217; launched last Sunday to curb drug-related and underworld activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Public Security Ministry said that 517 of these suspects are under further investigation with detention orders in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initiated on December 17, the week-long operation by the police, STF and other security forces has yielded significant results.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 12:30 am today, police have seized 7.7 kgs of heroin, 3.9 kgs of Ice, 227 kgs of cannabis, 546,040 cannabis plants, 105 kgs of Mawa, 35 kgs of Ash, 551grams of hashish, 3 kgs of Thule, 520 grams of Kush and 44,267 narcotic pills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, 106 suspects are under investigation for illegal assets, and 886 drug addicts have been directed to rehabilitation centers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police Narcotics Bureau and the Special Bureau have arrested 885 suspects out of 4,665 individuals listed as Island Re-convicted criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, a number of vehicles and properties acquired through illegal means by underworld criminals have been seized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 22 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A total of 10,456 suspects have been arrested as of today in the island-wide special operation &#8216;Yukthiya,&#8217; launched last Sunday to curb drug-related and underworld activities. The Public Security Ministry said that 517 of these suspects are under further investigation with detention orders in place. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}