Sri Lanka, April 12 -- Legal action has been taken against seven buses operating without passenger transport service permits following a raid conducted in Colombo, officials said.

Acting on information received that passengers were being transported without authorisation from People's Park to Hatton, Nawalapitiya and Dayagama, officers of the mobile inspection unit of the National Transport Commission (NTC), together with police personnel stationed at the Bastian Mawatha Bus Terminal, carried out inspections last night (11).

NTC Director of Operations and Service Supervision Shereen Athukorala stated that the operators of the seven buses were produced before the courts following the operation.

Authorities said the buses had been allege...