An officer attached to the Excise Department office in Vavuniya was arrested on charges of possessing Kerala Ganja during a raid in Kaththankudi yesterday.
Police said the 25-year-old suspect, a resident of Kalmunai, was arrested by the Baticaloa Division Crime Prevention Unit along with 775 grams of Kerala Ganja.
He was to be produced in the Baticloa Magistrate’s Court.