Our Denagama correspondent

Two alert policemen on Friday apprehended six persons who had allegedly pawned fake gold jewellery at several state banks in the South. Police also recovered several fake bangles and Rs. 100,000 in cash.

Seeing six persons travelling in a three wheeler, police had questioned them, a police spokesman said. Under interrogation, the suspects had revealed that they had been producing fake gold jewellery and pawning them for about eight months.

They had been arrested as they were on their way to a bank.

The police said the suspects had obtained about Rs. 1.5 million from banks over the past several months. The Matara Magistrate and Additional District Judge M.K.A. Peiris, on Friday, remanded the suspects, all residents of Beliatta police area, till February 27.