Two suspects who were allegedly illegally transporting four sea turtles were taken into custody yesterday (31) by the Manipay Police in Jaffna.
The four sea turtles were discovered when officers from the Manipay Police, acting on a tip-off, stopped and searched a suspicious lorry at the police roadblock on the Manipay Main Road.
The lorry driver and another person who was inside the lorry at the time were taken into police custody.
It has been revealed that the sea turtles, who had been kept inside a sack, were being transported to be sold to hotels in Colombo for meat, police claimed.
The suspects have been identified as a 47-year-old resident of Colombo and a 32-year-old resident of Ilavalai, Jaffna. Both suspects are due to be produced before the Mallakam Magistrate's Court.
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