The driver and cleaner of the container trailer, carrying a load of high protein BT 100 biscuits to Kilinochchi arrested at Medawachchiya police checkpoint early this week, had been produced before the Medawachchiya Circuit Court.

Anuradhapura Magistrate and Medawachchiya Circuit Magistrate Ruchira Weliwatte ordered the two to be remanded till February 05, police said.

The driver S. W. M. J. S. Wijesinghe is a resident of Divulapitiya and the cleaner S. J. M. Jauawekara is a resident of Welimada.

When they were produced before the Magistrate they had said the 1,650 cartons, containing 39,000 high protein biscuits, were sent by the World Food Programme for the war displaced children in Kilinochchi, but they were unable to produce any documents about the goods they were carrying. Medawachchiya police, who produced them, told the Magistrate that the driver and the cleaner did not have any documents supporting their claim.