Customs seize aprons with Buddha images

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A stock of 5,424 sets of kitchen apparels with printed images of the Buddha was seized today by the Customs in a container in transshipment, Customs Spokesman Dharmasena Kahandawa said.

He said the kitchen apparel sets were found during the Customs checking on several other goods from India.

“Each set included an apron, two oven gloves and a table serviette in 904 cartons,” he said.
The stock was detected while the container was opened for unloading some other items in Sri Lanka.

The shipment had arrived from Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) few days ago and the ship was travelling to Slovenia, in the Central Europe via Sri Lanka.

The cargo arrived at the BQ4 warehouse of the Colombo Port on December 2 and the shipment arrived on SS St. John Ark.

Officials said investigations would be done and relevant actions would be taken by the Customs

He said the Sri Lanka Customs would inform to the Indian Customs to conduct an inquiry and to stop such items that hurt the sentiments on any religion.

After the investigation Customs will hand over the consignment to the Ministry of Buddha Sasana, he said. (Chaturanga Pradeep)

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saman Thursday, 22 December 2016 05:34 PM

With all Due respect our Buddhist Priest behave much worse , think as we are more affected on this than be worried on Transhipment ..

Sira Thursday, 22 December 2016 07:24 PM

Well said .

Dot Friday, 23 December 2016 04:21 AM

I like the comments .This Apron thing is sooooo trivial when we consider the insult to the Compassionate one when we profess to follow his precepts and work to enhance our ego by bending the rules and living on them thereof ..By depriving the poor by accumulating more than our share of the scarce resources in a country ..the list goes on but Aprons well I never !

Hucking Fell Friday, 23 December 2016 09:32 AM

Now i realize why the Muslims dont have a picture of their god Allah and Muhammad.

suresh Friday, 23 December 2016 12:08 PM

what exactly do the ministry of buddha sasana propose to do with these aprons

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