{"id":299,"date":"2026-04-24T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=299"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:49:46","slug":"over-550kg-of-smuggled-beedi-leaves-seized-in-negombo-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/24\/over-550kg-of-smuggled-beedi-leaves-seized-in-negombo-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 550kg of Smuggled Beedi Leaves Seized in Negombo Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"214\">Sri Lanka Navy has seized more than 550 kilograms of illegally transported beedi leaves during a special operation in the Negombo lagoon area.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"216\" data-end=\"419\">The raid was carried out by personnel attached to the Western Naval Command, including SLNS Kaumini. During the operation, a suspicious dinghy boat moving through the lagoon was intercepted and searched.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"612\">Upon inspection, officers discovered 553 kilograms of beedi leaves packed in 15 sacks. Two suspects along with the dinghy were taken into custody by the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sri Lanka Navy<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"764\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The seized items, along with the suspects and the boat, have been handed over to the Customs Preventive Office in Katunayake for further legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Navy has seized more than 550 kilograms of illegally transported beedi leaves during a special operation in the Negombo lagoon area. The raid was carried out by personnel attached to the Western Naval Command, including SLNS Kaumini. During the operation, a suspicious dinghy boat moving through the lagoon was intercepted and searched. Upon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}