Famous drug smuggler ‘Mathagal Mathan’ from Jaffna arrested!

According to Tamil Nadu media sources, it is revealed that one accused as the mastermind of the network of drug smuggling from India to Jaffna through sea route has been arrested in India.

With the fake name of ‘Mathagal Mathan’ of 44 years from Mathagal area in Jaffna he has been arrested in Sembodai in Vethraniyam area yesterday.

He had been wanted and was under surveillance of Srilankan Security forces under the charge of smuggling drugs to Jaffna from India.

He was in the wanted list by Tamil Nadu police in connection with smuggling drug to Jaffna in 2021. But he was in absconding situation cheating Tami Nadu police. In this respect only he has been arrested yesterday in Vetharaniyam.

Once he was sentenced to one and half a year by Tamil Nadu Courts and released in the same year too. After his release he came back to Srilanka and for some time he had been engaged in his own profession of fishing in his native place,Mathagal.

Now it is learnt that he has been kept in Saithapeddai sub-jail for further hearings.