More crime prevention in Jaffna

Policemen belonging to nine police stations arrested 66 persons in a joint round up carried out in different parts of Jaffna peninsula.

The police sources said that this type of round up is being done in the Eastern and Southern Provinces too. In last month’s round up in Jaffna more than a hundred persons have been arrested and produced in courts.

This month the arrested included persons selling ganja, illicitly brewing and selling kasippu and violating traffic rules. Persons wanted in connection with thefts were also hauled up.

The police have increased patrols and arrested teenagers who harass women and girls.

Open sluice for better cultivation

The residents of Ramanathapuram in Kilinochchi area complain that even though four months have elapsed after the resettlement in Vaddakachchi and Ramanathapuram areas the water channel from Iranaimadhu tank that goes to Ramanathapuram and Vaddakachchi has dried as a result of the water sluice is closed. In the middle of last month the damaged channel near the tank has been repaired and the sluice has been partially opened to allow the water to go up to Vaddakachchi only. The Ramanathapuram farmers complain that their fields have no water for cultivation. The wells in the area too have gone dry. The cattle are roaming in search of water.

They urge to take action to open the sluice to allow the water to flow freely through the channel. The damaged channel must be repaired immediately. Failure to do so will result in complete failure of Yala cultivation of paddy, they say.

Convocation

The annual convocation of Jaffna University will take place on October 6. The Vice Chancellor of the University Prof N Shanmugalingan will award the post graduate degrees, degrees and the diplomas.

Nedunkulam tank repaired

The Nedunkulam tank in Moor Road Mannar has been repaired after a lapse of 45 years, with the cooperation of the people and Navy personnel in Mannar. This tank is one of the biggest and deepest tanks in Mannar and catered to the people’s requirement. This tank was filled with sea water when the tsunami lashed over the Mannar coast.

For years the tank remained unrepaired and uncared for. With the onset of rainy season the tank will be completely filled with water. It will meet the irrigation needs of the cultivators.

Fake notes in Jaffna

-Fake thousand rupee notes are in circulation in Jaffna. The notes are surreptitiously passed off to tipplers in arrack taverns when they are in a state of intoxication. Incidents of unsuspecting people taking fake notes to banks to be deposited in their savings account are also reported. The new blue notes with President Rajapaksa’s picture on the back are the printed fake notes in circulation.

Armed gang robs Rs one lakh

An armed gang entered into the house of one Parameswary at Wyman Road, close to Nallur Kandasamy Kovil Saturday midnight and robbed Rs one lakh and gold jewellery. There were only three women in the house.

The gang attacked the women and cut them with sword.