Ratnapura District United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian and actor Ranjan
Ramanayake has been taken into custody a short while ago, according to sources
close to him.
Mr. Ramanayake has been arrested in Colomboover an allegation of fraud amounting to some Rupees one million and is to be
produced before the Kandymagistrate tomorrow, according to Central Province DIG Pujith Jayasundera.
A female teacher of a Kandy school had
lodged a complaint with the Kandy Police regarding an alleged financial fraud
by Ranjan Ramanayake. He filed for an Anticipatory Bail in courts, which was
rejected.
