{"id":708,"date":"2026-05-02T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=708"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:26:12","slug":"raid-on-overpriced-rice-sales-special-operation-conducted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/02\/raid-on-overpriced-rice-sales-special-operation-conducted\/","title":{"rendered":"Raid on Overpriced Rice Sales \u2013 Special Operation Conducted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has carried out a special raid at a trade stall in the Kesbewa\u2013Bokundara Economic Centre for selling rice, including <em>Keeri Samba<\/em>, above the government-approved Maximum Retail Price (MRP).<\/p>\n<p>The raid was conducted as part of an ongoing island-wide operation aimed at identifying traders who sell rice at prices exceeding the limits announced through official gazette notifications.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, several special inspections were carried out today (02) focusing on the Piliyandala area.<\/p>\n<p>The CAA stated that continuous raids are being conducted across the country to curb unfair trade practices such as overpricing and hoarding of essential goods.<\/p>\n<p>The public has been urged to immediately report any instances of selling goods at excessive prices or stockpiling. Consumers can submit complaints to the Consumer Affairs Authority via the hotline <strong>1977<\/strong> during office hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has carried out a special raid at a trade stall in the Kesbewa\u2013Bokundara Economic Centre for selling rice, including Keeri Samba, above the government-approved Maximum Retail Price (MRP). The raid was conducted as part of an ongoing island-wide operation aimed at identifying traders who sell rice at prices exceeding the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","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\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}