Sri Lanka, June 10 -- Five Jewish Rabbis, including three Israelis who were performing Kosher on the poultry products of a chicken processing plant in Mirigama were arrested by the Department of Immigration and Emigration (DIE) yesterday for defying their visit visa conditions in Sri Lanka.

The DIE officials, acting on information, raided a chicken processing plant and took five Jewish Rabbis, three of whom were from Israel and two others each from Australia and Italy.

Preliminary inquiries revealed that the five Rabbis who had arrived in the country recently on a visit visa were performing the Kosher tradition of making the poultry products satisfying the requirements of the Jewish laws. The Kosher-performed meat was then supposed to ...