{"id":139321,"date":"2023-12-29T16:31:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139321"},"modified":"2023-12-29T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:31:26","slug":"yukthiya-operation-1400-more-individuals-nabbed-with-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/29\/yukthiya-operation-1400-more-individuals-nabbed-with-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yukthiya\u2019 operation: 1,400 more individuals nabbed with drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>During the ongoing \u2018Yukthiya\u2019 operation, the security forces personnel have arrested over 1,400 more suspects on suspicion of drug peddling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, a total of 1,467 more drug suspects have been placed under arrest within a 24-hour window ending at 12:30 a.m. today (Dec.29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Public Security Ministry, detention orders were secured for 56 suspects for further interrogations. Another 51 were sent to rehabilitation centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 164 individuals who were on the list of Island Re-convicted Criminals are also among the recent arrestees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, 460g of heroin, 653g of methamphetamine (\u2018Ice\u2019), 3.63kg of cannabis, 562 narcotic pills and 103,793 cannabis plants were seized in the anti-drug operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana During the ongoing \u2018Yukthiya\u2019 operation, the security forces personnel have arrested over 1,400 more suspects on suspicion of drug peddling. As such, a total of 1,467 more drug suspects have been placed under arrest within a 24-hour window ending at 12:30 a.m. today (Dec.29). According to the Public Security Ministry, detention orders were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139321","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=139321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}