Nelli Adi police yesterday (06) have arrested three persons who were donating Rs. 20 million in cash to the residents in the area at a house on Udupidi Wadiriyan Road in Jaffna on a charge of violating quarantine laws.
A son in a foreign country has sent Rs. 20 million to his father and instructed him to give Rs. 2000 each to the needy families.
When the elderly father started distributing the money along with two other members of the family, more than 2,000 residents of Jaffna hearing the news had come to the house and formed a long queue to collect money disregarding the quarantine curfew.
Most of them had not even worn face masks, the police said.
The elderly father and his two relatives have been arrested and taken to the police station for gathering a large number of people in one place in violation of the quarantine law at a time when the curfew is being enforced.
At that time about 500 persons had received Rs. 2000 each and the rest had been warned by the police and chased away, police said.