Suspect arrested with parliament passes and map to parliament
April 25, 2019 11:57 am
A search at a house in Kirimatithenna area in Balangoda has led to the arrest of a youth along with a rough map of the road to the Parliament, 06 Parliament passes and a cab.
Balangoda Police had carried out the house based on a tip-off received by them and they had discovered a tablet device, 03 mobile phones, 13 SIM cards, 02 T-56 bullets, and several credit cards at the house.
Police have deployed a Police Canine named ‘Toga’ to look for any presence of explosives within the house and the cab.
Although no explosives were found, the back of the cab had been covered with a metal sheet allowing a space of about 4 inches between the bottom of the cab and the sheet.
The owner of the cab has been revealed to be a resident of Ampara and the arrested youth is a 26-year-old working in a restaurant in Kollupitiya.
The arrested suspect will be presented before the Balangoda magistrate today (25).
