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Who’s taking fish from beggars’ plates?

During the current travel restrictions, some vendors such as vegetable sellers and fish traders were permitted to go to residential areas and sell their items, as they served a public need.

However, in Jaffna, fish seller claim they are forced to pay bribes to police personnel in Kopay to sell their products to area people.

One seller alleged that once a police officer solicited a bribe to allow him to do his business in a particular spot. He even agreed to issue an unofficial note in case another officer approached the trader for fresh bribes.

Fish traders took up the issue with the local authorities this week, complaining that what these police personnel were doing was like taking food from the plates of beggars while they were going through extreme difficulties to feed their families.

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