{"id":231480,"date":"2023-12-25T00:16:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231480"},"modified":"2023-12-25T00:16:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:46:36","slug":"nearly-14000-people-arrested-in-police-crackdown-on-drug-related-activities-in-sri-lanka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/nearly-14000-people-arrested-in-police-crackdown-on-drug-related-activities-in-sri-lanka-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 14,000 people arrested in police crackdown on drug-related activities in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colombo, 23 Dec: Nearly 14,000 people have been arrested in a week-long crackdown on drug-related activities in Sri Lanka, police said on Sunday.<br \/>\nAccording to an official statement, a special operation was conducted from Dec 17 to 24 which &#8221;resulted in the arrest of 13,666 suspects&#8221; with 717 of them subjected to further detention orders.<br \/>\nAmong those detained, 174 individuals are currently under investigation for the possession of unlawfully acquired assets. Additionally, 1,097 drug addicts have been sent for rehabilitation, it said.<br \/>\nDuring the week-long operation, 1,107 suspects out of the 4,665 identified by the police narcotics bureau were also taken into custody.<br \/>\nThe operation was the brainchild of Sri Lanka&#8217;s new police chief Deshabandu Tennakoon, who assumed the position earlier this month for a three-month term.<br \/>\nHowever, Tennakoon&#8217;s appointment has not been without controversy, as he recently faced legal challenges. On December 14, the Supreme Court ordered Tennakoon and three other policemen to pay compensation to a torture victim from an incident dating back to 2011. PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo, 23 Dec: Nearly 14,000 people have been arrested in a week-long crackdown on drug-related activities in Sri Lanka, police said on Sunday. According to an official statement, a special operation was conducted from Dec 17 to 24 which &#8221;resulted in the arrest of 13,666 suspects&#8221; with 717 of them subjected to further detention orders. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}