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by Panadura group correspondent

Panadura Magistrate Sirisunanda Herath remanded 28 Tamil youths found in a house at Weragama, Wadduwa and an agent of a foreign employment agency, a house owner and another person till 29th of this month pending further investigations to find out whether they were involved in terrorist activities.

Wadduwa Police OIC Inspector Sarath Dasanayake and a team of policemen produced all the suspects before the Magistrate in his official residence on Monday evening avoiding the Pressman and submitted a "B" report regarding the investigations conducted regarding the suspects after their arrest on last Friday. They were involved in a foreign employment racket.

The police also arrested Hewage Munasingha, Agent of a Foreign Employment Agency in Colombo his colleague Jayaruwan Jayanath and Anton Fernando of Weragama Road, Wadduwa who had kept the 28 Tamil youths for two weeks in his house without obtaining a permit from Wadduwa Police, although the officials of the Criminal Investigations Dept, Anti Terrorists Activities Unit, Mount Lavinia Special Anti Terrorists Activities Unit, investigated into the conduct of the Tamil youth suspecting that they were involved in terrorists activities found no evidence against them that they were involved in terrorist activities.

The suspects had told that they came to Weragama on the instructions of an agent of a Foreign Employment Agency in Colombo to go abroad for employment.

They had paid large amount of money to the agency. On interrogating the suspects the Police also arrested a co-Director of a teledrama produced regarding the ethnic problem.

Inspector Sarath Dasanayake further stated that the police are further investigating into the matter and move for the remand of all the suspects.

Meanwhile the Anti Terrorist Unit of the Colombo Police Headquarters had informed. Wadduwa police that there was no evidence to involve the 28 Tamil suspects in terrorist activities and that they are not LTTE suspects.

Panadura Division Supdt. of Police Kithsiri Dayananda and ASP Sanjeewa Dharmaratne supervised the investigations on the direction of Jayantha Wickramaratne DIG Western Province South on the instructions of the IGP Lukcy Kodituwakku.

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