An individual who had paid using a fake Rs 1000 currency note while purchasing goods at a state-owned Sathosa retail outlet in Balangoda has been arrested yesterday (oct 27).
Police had launched an operation to apprehend the customer, after a complaint had been filed by the outlet over the incident.
The suspect had then been apprehened with three similar fake currency notes in his posession. He has been identified as a 30-year old resident of Sevanagala.
He is due to be produced before the Balangoda Magistrate's Court today.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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