Colombo, Oct. 21 -- A consignment of more than 359,000 intoxicant tablets was seized in transit, and a suspect was arrested during a raid at Mandimuruppu yesterday.

The suspect was transporting it from Kalpitiya to Vavuniya by a double cab when the police carried out the raid on a tip-off regarding the racket.

The 23-year-old suspect was a resident of Kalpitiya area.

Under interrogation, he revealed that the trade value of the stock of contraband tablets was more than Rs. 100 million. He stated that he was to hand over the stock of tablets to the kingpin behind the racket in Vavuniya.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the stock of intoxicants had been smuggled by sea from India or another country and that schoolchildren were th...