Five persons including a Police Sub-Inspector (SI) have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a three-wheeler driver and attempting to forcefully enter him into a van in Alawathugoda last night, police said.
The Sub-Inspector, who is the officer-in-charge of the police checkpoint at Kandenuwara in Matale, was traveling in a van with four other persons when they were involved in an argument with a three-wheeler driver at around 10.00pm yesterday.
The suspects had then proceeded to assault the three-wheeler driver and forcefully take him away in their van, when residents in the area had apprehended them and handed over to the Alawathugoda Police.
It has been revealed that all the arrested suspects were under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident.
