06th May 2021 22:07:54 Hours
On information received to, 4 MIC Intelligence troops under Security Force Headquarters Kilinochchi apprehended a civilian with counterfeit notes worth about 8 laks and fifteen thousand rupees along with Kilinochchi police from a general area Shanthipuram, Kilinochchi, on 03 May 2021.
Info received that suspect along with a friend have tried to purchase some goods from a shop in Shanthipuram and due to the suspicious nature of the notes shop owners has info to 4 MIC Int tps. Kilinochchi Police conducted further investigations.
As per directions of General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff, Commander of the Army and close supervision and instruction of Commander Security Forces Kilinochchi Major General Harendra Ranasinghe, troops in the Kilinochchi area throwing their full weight behind the government's all-out war against narcotics, drugs, illicit liquor, sand mining and smuggling of contraband have in the past recovered drugs, and other contraband from Kilinochchi and elsewhere.
