Ten suspects who were smoking and possessing ganja were fined Rs. 35,000 when they were produced before Galgamuwa Magistrate L. T. Warusavithana by Galgamuwa Police in Kurunegala.
They were all teenagers. A police chief in Kurunegala told the Daily News that about 172 persons had been arrested from various parts of the Kurunegala District during the past three months for smoking ganja and heroin.